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Psychosocial Processes and Health: A Reader »

Authors: Andrew Steptoe (Editor), Jane Wardle
ISBN-13: 9780521426183, ISBN-10: 0521426189
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Andrew Steptoe

Steptoe, Andrew (Univ of London); Wardle, Jane (Univ of London)

This book is a collection of 31 papers previously published over a broad range of medical, psychological, and sociological journals. Although many of the papers are relatively new, the oldest dates back 30 years. The contributors are, therefore, the authors of the original papers.

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State-of-the-art summaries of research in psychosocial factors and health.

	Preface
Sect. 1	Life stress, social support and health	1
	Unemployment and mortality in the OPCS Longitudinal Study	12
	Job strain, work place social support, and cardiovascular disease: a cross-sectional study of a random sample of the Swedish working population	25
	Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents	43
	Goal frustration and life events in the aetiology of painful gastrointestinal disorder	68
	Psychosocial assets, life crisis and the prognosis of pregnancy	82
Sect. 2	Psychophysiological processes in disease	99
	Pain mechanisms: a new theory	112
	Effects of coping behavior on gastric lesions in rats as a function of the complexity of coping tasks	132
	Social stress and atherosclerosis in normocholesterolemic monkeys	141
	Mental stress and the induction of silent myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease
	Depressed lymphocyte function after bereavement	166
	Psychological stress and susceptibility to the common cold	171
Sect. 3	Personality, behaviour patterns and health	189
	Coronary heart disease in the Western Collaborative Group Study: final follow-up experience of 8 1/2 years	200
	Anger-coping types, blood pressure, and all-cause mortality: a follow-up in Tecumseh, Michigan (1971-1983)	215
	Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: a thirty-five-year longitudinal study	235
	Effectiveness of hardiness, exercise and social support as resources against illness	247
Sect. 4	Health practices and the modification of health risk behaviour	261
	A multivariate analysis of health-related practices: a nine-year mortality follow-up of the Alameda County Study	273
	The Health Belief Model and participation in programmes for the early detection of breast cancer: a comparative analysis	290
	Health promotion and the compression of morbidity	308
	Community education for cardiovascular health
	Primary prevention of cancer among children: changes in cigarette smoking and diet after six years of intervention	325
Sect. 5	Coping with illness and disability	337
	Active coping processes, coping dispositions, and recovery from surgery	348
	The impact of denial and repressive style on information gain and rehabilitation outcomes in myocardial infarction patients	369
	Reduction of postoperative pain by encouragement and instruction of patients: a study of doctor-patient rapport	386
	Psychological response to breast cancer: effect on outcome	393
	The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: a field experiment in an institutional setting	400
Sect. 6	Behavioural interventions in medicine	413
	Randomised controlled trial of nicotine chewing-gum	427
	Conditioned side effects induced by cancer chemotherapy: prevention through behavioral treatment	439
	Improvement of medication compliance in uncontrolled hypertension	457
	Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer	468
	Alteration of type A behavior and its effect on cardiac recurrences in post myocardial infarction patients: summary results of the recurrent coronary prevention project
	Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease? The Lifestyle Heart Trial
	Index	522

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