Stress and Anxiety
Volume 9
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 3. August 2026
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Hardback
302 pages
978-1-041-33778-2 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1985, this volume of Stress and Anxiety was number nine in the series first started in 1975. During this time stress research had continued to proliferate, and demands for practical solutions for stress-related problems had accelerated at an even faster pace. While much had been learned about the nature of stress and its impact on behavior, it was felt that dedicated multidisciplinary efforts by social, behavioral, and medical scientists would still be required to make further progress in this highly complex field.
Growing evidence of the effects of stress on such medical disorders as coronary heart disease had stimulated demands for stress reduction and stress management programs. There remained, however, a tremendous gap between the wide variety of programs designed to ameliorate the effects of stress and the knowledge base on which such programs must depend. In the US, stress had become a major growth industry, and there was an urgent need for stress modification efforts to be firmly based on a solid foundation of empirical research.
This volume is based on papers presented at two international conferences on Stress and Anxiety convened in 1980 at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Growing evidence of the effects of stress on such medical disorders as coronary heart disease had stimulated demands for stress reduction and stress management programs. There remained, however, a tremendous gap between the wide variety of programs designed to ameliorate the effects of stress and the knowledge base on which such programs must depend. In the US, stress had become a major growth industry, and there was an urgent need for stress modification efforts to be firmly based on a solid foundation of empirical research.
This volume is based on papers presented at two international conferences on Stress and Anxiety convened in 1980 at The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands. Today it can be read in its historical context.
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Peter B. Defares (1929-2010), was, at the time of original publication, based at the University of Wageningen in The Netherlands.
Content
Contributors. Preface. Part I: Stress, Cognition, and Personality 1. Toward a Model of Emotion Nico H. Frijda 2. A Cognitive Model of Anxiety: Implications for Theories of Personality and Motivation Vernon Hamilton 3. Stress, Personality, and Smoking Behavior H. J. Eysenck 4. Coping Patterns among Patients with Life-threatening Diseases Irving L. Janis Part II: Environmental Stress and Anxiety 5. Situational Factors in Research in Stress and Anxiety: Sex and Age Differences David Magnusson 6. Arousal, Affect, and Self-perception: The Role of the Physical Environment Vernon L. Allen 7. Stress, Anxiety, and the Air Traffic Control Specialist: Some Surprising Conclusions from a Decade of Research Roger C. Smith 8. Life Against Life: The Psychosomatic Consequences of Man-Made Disasters J. Bastiaans Part III: State and Trait Anxiety 9. General vs. Situation-specific Traits as Related to Anxiety in Ego-threatening Situations Lothar Laux, Peter Glanzmann and Paul Schaffner 10. The Development and Validation of the Dutch State-Trait Anxiety Inventory: "Zelf-Beordelings Vragenlijst" Henk M. van der Ploeg 11. Anxiety Induced by Ego- and Physical Threat: Preliminary Validation of a Dutch Adaptation of Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) F. C. Bakkerand P. C. W. van Wieringen Part IV: Stress and the Cardiovascular System 12. Breathing to the Heart of the Matter: Effects of Respiratory Influences upon Cardiovascular Phenomena P. Grossman and P. B. Defares 13. Individual Response Specificity in Phasic Cardiac Activity: Implications for Stress Research J. F. Orlebeke, M. W. van der Molen, R. J. M. Somsen and L. J. P. van Doornen 14. A Social-Psychophysiological Model of Biobehavioral Factors and Coronary Heart Disease Theodore M. Dembroski, James M. MacDougall, Robert S. Eliot and James C. Buell 15. Differential Effects of Work-related Stressors on Cardiovascular Responsivity Siegfried Streufert, Susan C. Streufert, Ann L. Denson, Janet Lewis, Rugh Henderson and Jim L. Shields Part V: Stress and Heart Disease 16. Type A Behavior and Coronary Heart Disease: Review of Theory and Findings R. H. Rosenman and M. A. Chesney 17. Biomedical and Psychosocial Predictors of Hypertension in Air Traffic Controllers C. David Jenkins, Michael W. Hurst, Robert M. Rose, Laurie Anderson and Bernard E. Kreger 18. Personality Correlates of Elevated Blood Pressure: Anxiety, Unexpressed Anger, and Lack of Assertiveness Daisy Schalling 19. Validation in Lithuania of the Type A Coronary-prone Behavior Pattern as Measured by the JAS A. Appels, C. D. Jenkins, A. Gostautas and F. Nijhuis. Appendix. Author Index. Subject Index.