Measuring Stress is the definitive resource for health and social scientists interested in assessing stress in humans. With contributions from leading experts, this work provides for the first time a unified conceptual overview of the intricate relationship between stress and a variety of
disorders. Its interdisciplinary approach to the selection of appropriate environmental, psychological, and biological measures includes comprehensive evaluations and practical advice regarding a wide range of measurement approaches. For environmental stress, techniques such as checklists and
interviews that measure life event, daily event, and chronic stress are discussed. An analysis of psychological measurements includes methods for assessing stress appraisal and affective response. Neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and immune measures are examined as important biological stress
assessments. Contributors also uncover the conceptual underpinnings of each approach as well as the various costs and benefits of available assessment techniques. Reflecting the diversity of theoretical conceptions of stress, Measuring Stress masterfully provides integrative, incisive guidelines
that will prove invaluable to students, clinicians, and researchers in health and social psychology, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, sociology, and psychiatry.
Measuring Stress is the definitive resource for health and social scientists interested in assessing stress in humans. With contributions from leading experts, this work provides for the first time a unified conceptual overview of the intricate relationship between stress and a variety of
disorders. Its interdisciplinary approach to the selection of appropriate environmental, psychological, and biological measures includes comprehensive evaluations and practical advice regarding a wide range of measurement approaches. For environmental stress, techniques such as checklists and
interviews that measure life event, daily event, and chronic stress are discussed. An analysis of psychological measurements includes methods for assessing stress appraisal and affective response. Neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and immune measures are examined as important biological stress
assessments. Contributors also uncover the conceptual underpinnings of each approach as well as the various costs and benefits of available assessment techniques. Reflecting the diversity of theoretical conceptions of stress, Measuring Stress masterfully provides integrative, incisive guidelines
that will prove invaluable to students, clinicians, and researchers in health and social psychology, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, sociology, and psychiatry.
PART I: Conceptualizing Stress and Its Relation to Disease
1: Sheldon Cohen, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lynn G. Gordon: Strategies
for Measuring Stress in Studies of Psychiatric and Physical
Disorders
PART II: Environmental Perspectives
2: R. Jay Tuner and Blair Wheaton: Checklist Measurement of
Stressful Life Events
3: Elaine Wethington, George W. Brown, and Ronald C. Kessler:
Interview Measurement of Stressful Life Events
4: John Eckenrode and Niall Bolger: Daily and Within-day Event
Measurement
5: Stephen J. Lepore: Measurement of Chronic Stressors
PART III: Psychological Perspectives
6: Scott M. Monroe and John M. Kelley: Measurement of Stress
Appraisal
7: Arthur A. Stone: Measurement of Affective Response
PART IV: Biological Perspectives
8: Andrew Baum and Neil Grunberg: Measurement of Stress
Hormones
9: David S. Krantz: Measurement of Cardiovascular Response
10: Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser and Ronald Glaser: Measurement of
Immune Response
". . .their work is coherent, lively, and to the point."
--Contemporary Psychology
"A valuable resource for all individuals interested in any aspect
of stress research." --Health and Stress
"This book is a must-read for those involved or wishing to be
involved in stress research."--Journal of Psychiatry and
Neuroscience
"This book is superior to previous reviews of stress research in a
number of respects. . .it should be required reading for anyone,
regardless of level of expertise, interested in understanding how
stressful experiences contribute to physical and psychiatric
disorders and illness behaviors."--Psychosomatic Medicine
"A valuable resource for all individuals interested in any aspect
of stress research." --Health and Stress
"How does one describe a text that serves as a ready resource for
the assessment of stress measurement in major research on physical
and psychiatric illness in humans? Rigorous. What about a text that
is meant to convey this topic to scholars who hail from psychology,
sociology, epidemiology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing?
Comprehensive. Can an edited book achieve these ends without
sacrificing clarity or consistency across contributions, alienating
such
disparate audiences, or losing appeal for advanced students and
experts? Emphatically, yes. Stress continues to be a central entry
in the canon of the social science side of health, and a book
summarizing important assessment studies and guiding researchers to
appropriate measures ... is timely. The editors ... clearly labored
to create a balanced resource book ... The 16 authors who wrote the
chapters ... did an excellent job of following this editorial
lead--their work is coherent, lively, and to the
point."--Contemporary Psychology
"Considerable care and planning went into the design and
preparation of this volume. The chapters share a consistency in
style, organization, and quality that is altogether too rare in
edited volumes. Each chapter is quite thorough, which should make
the volume valuable for more experienced researchers. Both the
editors and the authors consistently opted to cover carefully
selected topics and measures in depth instead of providing
superficial coverage to a
broader range of topics or measures. Each chapter not only
discusses the strengths, but also discusses the limitations of
these measures. All told, the range of measures covered by these
nine chapters
provides a very broad and valuable perspective on what stress is,
and how it may be assessed. Individuals who are seeking information
converning the major methods of conceptualizing and measuring
stress will find this volume to be an invaluable resource." --
Craig Smith, PhD, The Health Psychologist, Fall 1996, Vol 18, No 4
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