Brings together scientists from various countries to present their theoretical viewpoints and research findings dealing with the impact of various traumatic events. This book focuses on various personality dimensions, in particular, neuroticism, mastery, s

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.