Stress And Anxiety

Featuring current findings by leading international researchers, this work is organized into four main sections, examining theoretical issues in contemporary stress research.

Stress from the perspective of reversal theory, M.J.Apter and S.Svebak; learned helplessness - affective or cognitive disturbance, M.Kofta and G.Sedek; circadian variation in stress - the effects of noise at different times of day, A.P.Smith; individual differences in tolerance to stress - the role of reactivity, J.Strelau; planning as a method of stress prevention - will it pay off, W.Battmann; personality and stress as conjoint factors in the genesis of lung cancer, H.J.Eysenck; risky heath behaviour - negative subjective competence of cigarette smokers, K.L.P.DeSoomer and P.B.Defares.