Stress, Personal Control and Health

This interdisciplinary work addresses the psychology of stress & its effect on health. Contributors offer diverse perspectives on stress & its relations to public health & epidemiology, medical sociology, social psychiatry, experimental & clinical psychology, nursing studies, & animal physiology. Provided is an assessment of the various ways in which personal control is invoked in a range of health-relevant issues. The current state of knowledge is summarized, & opportunities for new developments are highlighted. Three major sections address the role of control in job settings & its influence on health; the relationship of control to clinical problems such as pain, stress, & heart disease; & the pathways through which control affects behavior & psychobiological responses, from an experimental perspective.Steptoe, Andrew is the author of 'Stress, Personal Control and Health' with ISBN 9780471923886 and ISBN 0471923885.