Measuring Stress: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists

by Sheldon Cohen (Editor), Lynn Underwood Gordon (Series Editor), Ronald C. Kessler (Series Editor)

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  Illustrated
  1997

  $60.68

  This book is a resource for health and social scientists who assess the role of stress in their studies of physical and psychiatric illness. This work discusses how stress is conceptualized, the pathways through which stressors influence the onset and progression of psychiatric and physical illness, the alternate methods of measuring stress, and how one decides on appropriate measurement.