Stress, Culture, and Community: The Psychology and Philosophy of Stress

by Stevan E. Hobfoll

Book Overview

This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306484447
• ISBN13: 9780306484445
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"