Author : Howard S. Friedman
Publisher : APA Books
ISBN 13 : 9781557981387
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)
Book Synopsis Hostility, Coping & Health by : Howard S. Friedman
Download or read book Hostility, Coping & Health written by Howard S. Friedman and published by APA Books. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book presents a serious, exacting scientific approach to understanding the link between psychological factors and disease. The foremost researchers in health psychology offer their insight into emotional patterns, coping processes, life-style and behavioral influences, personality factors, and social contexts. Hostility and coping are analyzed from a wide variety of conceptual and methodological viewpoints, yielding the most thorough-going treatment of this topic in health psychology available today. /// "Hostility, Coping, and Health" sets the standard for future research into this fascinating area of study, which will have profound repercussions for psychology as well as medicine. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).