First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume is concerned with emotional reactions to stress and is organized in five parts dealing with stress and emotion theory; stress conflict and personality; emotional reactions to stress; physiological reactions to stress; and the relationship of type-A behaviour to heart disease. Type-A behaviour is dealt with on a number of levels, for example, occupational stress and the attendant risk of coronary disease, academic stress situations and other forms of behaviour pattern in type-A.