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Acknowledgments | |
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From Early Beginnings to the Twentieth Century | |
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Introduction | |
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Hooke's Law and the Engineering Analogy | |
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The Eighteenth Century and Beyond | |
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Summary: Themes from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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The Twentieth Century: The Early Years | |
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Introduction | |
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The Emergence of the School of Functionalism | |
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Fatigue and Mental Hygiene | |
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Psychosomatic Medicine and the Contribution of Walter Cannon | |
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Hans Selye | |
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The Work of Harold Wolff | |
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Summary | |
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The Twentieth Century: From the 1950s to Richard Lazarus | |
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Introduction: Stress in the 1950s and 1960s | |
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Stressful Life Events | |
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The Social Readjustment Scale | |
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Daily Hassles and Uplifts and the Debate that Followed | |
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The Debate: Critical Life Events versus Hassles and Uplifts | |
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Personality and Type A Behavior Patterns | |
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Towards the Study of Individual Differences | |
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A Return to the 1950s and 1960s and a Change in Focus | |
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The History of Stress in Sweden | |
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The Origins of Organizational Psychology | |
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Summary | |
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The Work of Richard Lazarus | |
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Introduction | |
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The Beginnings | |
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The Berkeley Stress and Coping Project | |
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A Historical Look at Appraisal | |
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The Nature of Appraisals and the Debate that Followed | |
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Lazarus and the Process View of Coping | |
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Ways of Coping Questionnaire | |
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Lazarus and Emotions | |
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Summary | |
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Work Stress and Occupational Health Psychology | |
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Introduction | |
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Work Stress | |
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Role Conflict, Role Ambiguity, and the Search for Causes of Work Stress | |
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Beyond Role Conflict, Ambiguity, and Overload | |
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Early Research Frameworks and Identifying Strains | |
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Towards and Integrated Model of Work Stress | |
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Work Stress and Coping | |
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From Coping to the Self-Help Years to Stress Management | |
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Occupational Health Psychology | |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | |
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Summary | |
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What do We Mean by Stress: From the Past to the Future | |
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Introduction | |
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What Do We Mean By Stress? | |
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From the Past to the Future | |
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How Does History Add to Our Understanding of Stress | |
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Searching for the Organizing Concept of the Future | |
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Distinguishing between Description and Meaning | |
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Why Study Stress? Fulfilling Our Moral Responsibility | |
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Summary | |
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References | |
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Index | |