Fifty Years of the Research and theory of R.s. Lazarus : An Analysis of Historical and Perennial Issues

ISBN-13: 9780805826579 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 456 str.

Richard S. Lazarus;Lazarus

Opis

This collection of articles written by Lazarus, reprints selected papers on stress and coping from the 1950s to the present, and provides a commentary explaining the origins of the issues and ideas discussed. The work is integrated with several themes about which psychologists debate heavily.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Prologue: General Introduction: Issues That Make a Lifetime of Research Come Together. Part I: Starting Out With a Bang: My Dissertation. Part II: Why Psychologists Argue: Perennial Epistemological Issues. The Revolt of the 1940s and 1950s: Individual Differences in Motivation and Defense Influence Perception. The Ancient Greeks Started It: Relations Among Cognition, Motivation, and Emotion. The Unconscious. Part III: The Transition From Laboratory to Field Research. Arousing Stress by Motion Picture Films. An Early Field Study. Stress and Coping Theory and Research. Part IV: The Clinical Applications of Stress and Coping. Focus on Denial. Focus on Daily Hassles. Focus on Psychotherapy. Focus on Job Stress. Focus on War and Peace. Part V: Expanding Stress and Coping to the Emotions. The Utility of the Emotions in the Study of Adaptation. Coping in Emotion. Epilogue.

O autorze

Richard S. Lazarus