Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Dominant themes in research on psychosocial stress
  • Role strains and personal stress / Leonard I. Pearlin
  • Dimensions of life events that influence psychological distress : an evaluation and synthesis of the literature / Peggy A. Thoits
  • Direct, indirect, and moderating effects of social support on psychological distress and associated conditions / R. Jay Turner
  • Individual coping efforts : moderators of the relationship between life stress and mental health outcomes / Elizabeth G. Menaghan
  • Part II. Toward a theoretical synthesis
  • Psychological distress in sociological context : toward a general theory of psychosocial stress / Howard B. Kaplan
  • Part III. Methodological issues
  • Methodological issues in the study of psychosocial stress / Ronald C. Kessler.