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  • PublisherPrints Publications Pvt Ltd
  • ISBN-139788194849056
  • BindingHard back
  • Pages315
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Published2022

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Publisher Prints Publications Pvt Ltd
Publication Year 2022
ISBN-13 9788194849056
E-ISBN 9788119972784
Binding Hard back
Number of Pages 315 Pages
Language English
Edition 1st
Dimension (Inches) 5.5"x8.5"
Weight (Grams) 514
Category Society & Social Sciences

This book entitled “An Interface with Stress: Causes and Preventions” is a creation based on observations about people, be it children, youngsters, adults, or old people running for life. Children are facing competitions, parents’ pressurizing expectations and unlimited aspirations, youngsters are busy under the strain of higher studies for preparing them for jobs, high status and comfort, adults are stressed because of job conditions, hectic daily routine, hassles, family life, children related problems etc.

This book comprises of nineteen chapters which try to cover up main areas of stress, be it physiology, psychology of stress or social stress, organizational stress, natural calamities, children under stress, family and stress, etc. It also deals with various coping strategies and role of nutrition and de-stressors in one’s life. After reading this book one may get the picture of stress from every angle possible and also get information about various coping strategies for each of them plus one may also get insights into preventive measures which may inoculate them against stress. This may also add to one’s confidence in facing life.

This book may prove worthwhile for all, be it common public, students of psychology, graduates, post-graduates and researchers, players, patients, clinicians, sports psychologists, health conscious people, etc. All those who want to increase their awareness about stress and how to deal with it, may find the book useful.

The highlights of this book are that it’s subject matter has been presented in simple English, examples are from indigenous areas. All can grasp it easily. Diagrams, tables, boxes have been made to illustrate the important topics. Professionals may also benefit from it.

This book may serve its purpose of enriching people about stress knowledge and methods of coping with an ever persisting devil in one’s life ‘Stress’.

 

Ambalika Sinha

Dr. Ambalika Sinha is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. She is Ph.D in Psychology. In the area of stress. She has twenty-five papers published, presented in various journals, books, conferences and seminars. She is guiding research scholars in the areas of stress, competitiveness etc. She is well versed in the courses she teaches like Organizational Behaviour. Principles of Management, Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Indian Social Organization, Industrial Psychology. She has represented her institute in many conferences like International Conference on Health Behavioural Sciences, Tokyo (1991), Fourth Regional Conference of International Association of Cross Cultural Psychology, Kathmandu (1992), Third covention of National Academy of Psychology, Meerut University (1992), 5th Congress of National Academy of psychology, Allahabad University (1994), National Seminar on Community Psychology, A.P.S. University, Rewa (1999), National Seminar of Identity in Youth Socio-Cultural Perspective, Allahabad University (2004), National Conference on Impact of Globalization on Education, Culture and Personality, A.D.C. Allahabad (2005), National Seminar on Liberalization and Empowerment of Women in India, Allahabad (2005). She has also done ISTE course : Training on Knowledge Management and its Implications in Indian Business, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, 2004. She hopes the reader find this book informative, interesting and meaningful for learning about stress.

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Contents

Page No.

 

Preface

(ix)

1

What is Stress? 

1

 

1.1     Stress

 

 

1.2     Stressful  events from lowest to highest magnitude and the coping Strategies

 

 

1.3     Selyes’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

 

 

1.4     Why Change Life Style (A Preventive Measure for Stress Occurrence) 

 

 

1.5     Present-Future scenario of Stress if motivators influence

 

 

 

 

2

Stress: Concepts and Theories

17

 

2.1     Related terms

 

 

2.2     Theoretical explanations for stress

 

 

 

 

3

The Human Physiology and Stress

27

 

3.1     The brain in stress and health 

 

 

3.2     The Thyroid glands and thyroxin

 

 

3.3     Natural defences of Immune system

 

 

 

 

4

Psychological Elements in Stress System

41

 

4.1     The Mind’s Suspence and Psyche

 

 

4.2     cognition

 

 

4.3     Factors leading to stressful appraisals

 

 

 

 

5

Family Under Stress: Various Problems and Coping Styles

55

 

5.1     Chain for family stress

 

 

5.2     The ABCX model of family stress

 

 

5.3     Coping with family stress: stages

 

 

 

 

6

Social Factors and Stress

73

 

6.1     Social theory of stress 

 

 

6.2     Impact of social change on personality stability

 

 

6.3     Professional and Life crises

 

 

6.4     Coping with life change

 

 

 

 

7

Children Under Stress

89

 

7.1     Factors influencing the severity of stress

 

 

7.2     Typical steps in coping with adjustive demands

 

 

 

 

8

Age Related Stress

119

 

8.1     Stochastic Theories

 

 

8.2     Programmed theories

 

 

8.3     Physical change during adult years

 

 

8.4     Physical changes during mid-life

 

 

8.5     Physical changes in late life

 

 

8.6     Consequences of Stress

 

 

8.7     Five golden principals to a stress free Life

 

 

 

 

9

Personal And Stress

129

 

9.1     Theoretical perspective on Personality

 

 

9.2     Hypertensive Personality – A view

 

 

9.3     The Cancerous Personality 

 

 

9.4     Personality stress and infertility link

 

 

9.5     Personality of an alcoholic 

 

 

9.6     Three personality traits link with stress and health

 

 

 

 

10

Environmental Stressor

159

 

10.1     Theories of environmental stress

 

 

10.2     Major stressors

 

 

10.3     Coping with outcomes of disasters

 

 

 

 

11

Stress Victims

173

 

11.1     Fear : A Mental Prison

 

 

11.2     Factors of victimization

 

 

11.3     Victimization avoidance

 

 

11.4     Life style evaluation

 

 

11.5     Proper selection of time

 

 

11.6     Awareness of high risk-places

 

 

11.7     Select self defeating measures carefully

 

 

11.8     Behavioural adjustment

 

 

11.9     Errors of attribution

 

 

11.10     The victim’s profile

 

 

11.11     Beliefs about crime 

 

 

11.12     Beliefs in personal invulnerability

 

 

11.13     Severity of Crime

 

 

11.14     Suggested steps for managing fear from victimization

 

 

11.15     Social actions to coping with victimization

 

 

 

 

12

Job Stress

193

 

12.1     Definition of job stress

 

 

12.2     Stress sources

 

 

12.3     Individual stressors

 

 

12.4     Outcomes for the organization

 

 

12.5     Coping strategies for stress

 

 

12.6     Special group facing work stress

 

 

 

 

13

Nutrition, Exercise, health and Stress

207

 

13.1     Role of dies on stress

 

 

13.2     Exercise health and stress

 

 

 

 

14

Stress Management Exercises

229

 

14.1  Relaxation Techniques 

 

 

 

 

15

Stress and Time Management

243

 

15.1     Need for time management study

 

 

15.2     Attitude towards time

 

 

15.3 Time-mismanagement : It’s impact

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