| Description |
xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part I. Biosocial background -- Gender differences in cardiovascular and neuroendocrine response to stressors / Joanna M. Polefrone and Stephen B. Manuck -- Gender differences in stress related disorders / Paul D. Cleary -- Part II. Social roles -- Structural contexts of sex differences in stress / Carol S. Aneshensel and Leonard I. Pearlin -- Gender differences in the health effects of workplace roles / Andrea Z. LaCrois and Suzanne G. Haynes -- Social roles, gender, and psychological distress / Rosalind C. Barnett and Grace K. Baruch -- The importance of life events for explaining sex differences in psychological distress / Elaine Wethington, Jane D. McLeod, Ronald C. Kessler -- Part III. Specific stressors -- The role of gender in reactions to criminal victimization / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Irene Hanson Frieze -- Gender and coping with the entry into early adolescence / Diane Mitsch Bush and Roberta Simmons -- Weight concerns as chronic stressors in women / Ilana Attie and J. Brooks-Gunn -- Part IV. Coping and adaptation -- Gender differences in the social moderators of stress / Deborah Belle -- Sex differences in cognitive coping with stress / Suzanne M. Miller and Nicholas Kirsch --- Stress responses and personality / Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa -- Gender differences in the use of substances for coping / Lois Biener. |
| Subject |
Stress (Psychology)
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Sex differences (Psychology)
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Women -- Psychology.
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Sex Characteristics.
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Stress, Psychological.
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Sex Factors.
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| Added Author |
Barnett, Rosalind C.
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Biener, Lois.
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Baruch, Grace K.
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| ISBN |
0029013801 |
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