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Encyclopedia of Health Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Encyclopedia of Health Psychology

- Not only is Health Psychology, a field that focuses on the promotion and maintenance of both physical and mental health, a rapidly growing area of interest, but it is also a field that draws on and contributes to the other varied fields of psychology, medicine, nursing, sociology, anthropology, among others. - Provides a relatively comprehensive and accesible overview of the central concepts, issues, conditions and terms that comprise the broad discipline of health psychology - Covers more than 200 contributions by more than 150 of the leading researchers, educators, and practitioners in the field

Anger, Hostility, and the Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Anger, Hostility, and the Heart

Research on the roles played by hostility and anger in the etiology and course of coronary heart disease (CHD) has mushroomed. Moreover, there has been considerable progress in the knowledge of neurohormonal correlates of anger and hostility that could conceivably play a role in the pathogenesis of CHD. The editors of this volume believe that this is the appropriate time in the history of coronary-prone behavior research to take stock -- to identify the basic questions that need further elucidation, and to provide future direction. Although there is a surprising consensus among the contributors about the nature of the critical issues, they each offer a somewhat different perspective. This book will provide a variety of perspectives on what is known and what still needs to be known -- a useful source for promising research hypotheses.

Psychology of Anger
  • Language: en

Psychology of Anger

In this text, the authors present new research in the study of the psychology of anger. The topics discussed include how we look at others in anger and the development of the McLinton Interpersonal Domain-specific Anger Instrument (MIDAI); anger and moral outrage; driver anger and aggression; a test of the state-trait model of anger with middle-aged drivers; developing a valid version of the Multicultural Latin American Inventory of Anger Expression and Hostility (ML-STAXI) to measure anger in Mexican adolescents; predicting children's angry, aggressive behaviour from cognitive and emotional self-regulation; measuring affect intensity for anger and frustration; the relationship between state-trait anger and aggressive driving; and mental care for anger in physically ill patients.

The Psychology of Good and Evil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

The Psychology of Good and Evil

This book gathers the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of the roots of goodness and evil. Since the late 1960s, Ervin Staub has studied the causes of helpful, caring, generous, and altruistic behavior. He has also studied bullying and victimization in schools as well as youth violence and its prevention. He spent years studying the origins of genocide and mass killing and has examined the Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, the autogenocide in Cambodia, the disappearances in Argentina, the genocide in Rwanda. He has applied his work in many real world settings and has consulted parents, teachers, police officers, and political leaders. Since September 11th, he has appeared frequently in the media explaining the causes and prevention of terrorism. Professor Staub's work is collected together for the first time in The Psychology of Good and Evil.

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 920

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine

Health psychology is a rapidly expanding discipline at the interface of psychology and clinical medicine. This new edition is fully reworked and revised, offering an entirely up-to-date, comprehensive, accessible, one-stop resource for clinical psychologists, mental health professionals and specialists in health-related matters. There are two new editors: Susan Ayers from the University of Sussex and Kenneth Wallston from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The prestigious editorial team and their international, interdisciplinary cast of authors have reconceptualised their much-acclaimed handbook. The book is now in two parts: part I covers psychological aspects of health and illness, assessments, interventions and healthcare practice. Part II covers medical matters listed in alphabetical order. Among the many new topics added are: diet and health, ethnicity and health, clinical interviewing, mood assessment, communicating risk, medical interviewing, diagnostic procedures, organ donation, IVF, MMR, HRT, sleep disorders, skin disorders, depression and anxiety disorders.

The Psychology of Emotions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

The Psychology of Emotions

Emotions are a part of personality and essential to all human relationships, but how well do we understand what they really are? What are the processes by which they occuer and influence us? How do they affect the way we perceive and interact with the world? In The Psychology of Emotions, author Carroll E. Izard provides a timely overview that focuses on the relevance of emotions to our daily lives as he addresses these and other fundamental questions on the activation, expression, experience, and functions of emotions.

Hostility, Coping & Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Hostility, Coping & Health

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992-01
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  • Publisher: APA Books

This pioneering book presents a serious, exacting scientific approach to understanding the link between psychological factors and disease. The foremost researchers in health psychology offer their insight into emotional patterns, coping processes, life-style and behavioral influences, personality factors, and social contexts. Hostility and coping are analyzed from a wide variety of conceptual and methodological viewpoints, yielding the most thorough-going treatment of this topic in health psychology available today. /// "Hostility, Coping, and Health" sets the standard for future research into this fascinating area of study, which will have profound repercussions for psychology as well as medicine. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

Emotions in Social Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Emotions in Social Psychology

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Psychology of Personal Constructs: A theory of personality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

The Psychology of Personal Constructs: A theory of personality

Examining two centuries of Balkan politics, from the emergence of nationalism to the retreat of Communist power in 1989, this is the first book to systematically argue that many of the region's problems are external in origin. A decade of instability in the Balkan states of southeast Europe has given the region one of the worst images in world politics. The Balkans has become synonymous with chaos and extremism. Balkanization, meaning conflict arising from the fragmentation of political power, is a condition feared across the globe. This new text assesses the key issues of Balkan politics, showing how the development of exclusive nationalism has prevented the region’s human and material re...

Social Psychology of Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Social Psychology of Health

This volume describes classic and contemporary theory and research in social psychology that sheds light on how people think about health and illness, as well as their willingness to engage in health-relevant behaviors. The Editors have selected papers that serve to illustrate the reciprocal relation between advances in theory and advances in practice. The first two sections of the volume examine people's mental representations of health and health practices, and how these personal construals and implicit theories are linked to behavior. People can react to new health information in different ways - with acceptance, defensiveness, or downright ignorance. Research that can help us to understa...