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Book SynopsisA comprehensive work that brings together and explores state-of-the-art research on the link between stress and health outcomes.
- Offers the most authoritative resource available, discussing a range of stress theories as well as theories on preventative stress management and how to enhance well-being
- Timely given that stress is linked to seven of the ten leading causes of death in developed nations, yet paradoxically successful adaptation to stress can enable individuals to flourish
- Contributors are an international panel of authoritative researchers and practitioners in the various specialty subjects addressed within the work
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Cary L. Cooper and James Campbell Quick
Part I THEORIES
1 Bridging the Science–Policy and Policy–Implementation Gaps: A Crucial Challenge 7
Lennart Levi
2 The Effort–Reward Imbalance Model 24
Johannes Siegrist
3 Understanding Burnout: New Models 36
Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
4 Happiness and Mental Health: A Framework of Vitamins in the Environment and Mental Processes in the Person 57
Peter Warr
5 Understanding the Connections between Positive Affect and Health 75
Marie P. Cross and Sarah D. Pressman
Part II IMPACT OF STRESS ON HEALTH
6 Work, Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease 99
Peter L. Schnall, Marnie Dobson, and Paul Landsbergis
7 Stress and Cancer 125
Christoffer Johansen, Ivalu Katajavaara Sørensen, Beverley Lim Høeg, Pernille E. Bidstrup, and Susanne O. Dalton
8 Stress and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 135
Bjørn Grinde
9 The Double Burden of Work Stress and Depression: A Workplace Intervention 147
Debra Lerner, David A. Adler, William H. Rogers, Hong Chang, Annabel Greenhill, and Francisca Azocar
10 Stress, Recovery, Sleep, and Burnout 168
Sharon Toker and Samuel Melamed
11 Stress and Eating Disturbed Behavior 186
Derrick A. Bennett
12 Stress and Musculoskeletal Injury 210
Meredith M. Hartzell, Cameron D. T. Dodd, and Robert J. Gatchel
13 Managing the Impact of Advanced Complex Illness on Family Caregiver and Professional Caregiver Stress: A Role for Palliative Care 223
Gregory R. Harper, Bridget Blitz, Catherine Serena, Donna Stevens, and Daniel E. Ray
14 Crossover of Burnout and Engagement from Managers to Followers: The Role of Social Support 236
Mina Westman and Shoshi Chen
15 Stress and Addiction 252
Ann Roche, Victoria Kostadinov, and Jane Fischer
Part III PERSONALITY, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND STRESS
16 Locus of Control 283
Ning Hou, Alexa Doerr, Brandon A. Johnson, and Peter Y. Chen
17 The Type A Behavior Pattern 299
Geir Arild Espnes, Unni Karin Moksnes, and Donald Glenn Byrne
18 Emotional Intelligence, Health, and Stress 312
Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner, and Richard D. Roberts
19 Gender, Workplace Stress, and Coping 327
Faye K. Cocchiara
20 Socioeconomic Inequities in Health: The Power of Social Relationships 337
Catherine A. Heaney and Annekatrin Hoppe
Part IV COPING WITH STRESS
21 Lazarus and Folkman’s Psychological Stress and Coping Theory 351
Amanda Biggs, Paula Brough, and Suzie Drummond
22 Coping with Interpersonal Mistreatment: Not a Case of “Either Or,” but Rather “It Depends” 365
Rebecca Michalak, Sandra Kiffin-Petersen, and Neal M. Ashkanasy
23 Creating Well-Being among Older People: An Eastern Perspective 388
Luo Lu
24 Optimism, Coping, and Well-Being 400
Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier
25 Seligman’s Positive Psychology: Past, Present and Future Connections with Organizational Research 415
Thomas A. Wright
26 Demand, Resources, and Their Relationship with Coping: Developments, Issues, and Future Directions 427
Philip Dewe
27 Conservation of Resources Theory: Resource Caravans and Passageways in Health Contexts 443
Lucie Holmgreen, Vanessa Tirone, James Gerhart, and Stevan E. Hobfoll
Part V ENHANCING INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING
28 Enhancing Mental Well-Being 461
Wayne Martin, Brian Jamel Dixon, and Helen Thomas
29 Cancer Survivorship, Cancer-Related PTSD, and Positive Change: A Narrative Overview 472
Tom Cox, Gianina-Ioana Postavaru, Fehmidah Munir, Juliet Hassard, and Sara MacLennan
30 Sleep, Work, and Well-Being 485
Erica Carleton and Julian Barling
31 Sleep, Cognitive and Mood Symptoms in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Examining the Role of the Gut–Brain Axis 501
Amy Wallis, Melinda L. Jackson, Michelle Ball, Donald P. Lewis, and Dorothy Bruck
32 Funny or Funnier? A Review of the Benefits (and Detriments) of Humor in theWorkplace 523
Michael Sliter, Morgan Jones, and Dennis Devine
33 Building Positive Psychological Resources: The Effects of Mindfulness, Work Breaks, and Positive Reflection 538
Elisabeth K. Gilbert, Trevor A. Foulk, and Joyce E. Bono
Part VI ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING
34 Well-Being in Neighborhoods: Current Research and Future Practice 555
Christopher T. Boyko and Rachel Cooper
35 Creating Workplace Well-Being: Time for Practical Wisdom 570
Joel B. Bennett, John Weaver, Mim Senft, and Michael Neeper
36 Well-Being and Aesthetics: A Social Perspective on the Aged Body in Modern Dance 605
Stina Johansson and Maria Sjölund
37 Social Class, Health, Stress, and Heart Disease: Applying a Prevention Model 630
Demetria F. Henderson, Debra L. Nelson, and James Campbell Quick
Author Index 647
Subject Index 669
