Health, Coping, and Well-being (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives From Social Comparison Theory
Redaktion: Buunk, Bram P.; Buunk, A.; Gibbons, Frederick X.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is intended to provide health psychologists with perspectives from the domain of social psychology (social comparison theory), but will also appeal to social psychologists interested in applications of the theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134793174
• Artikelnr.: 39264092

Autorenporträt

Bram P. Buunk, Frederick X. Gibbons, A. Buunk

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: B.P. Buunk, F.X. Gibbons, M. Reis-Bergan, Social Comparison in Health and Illness: An Overview. W.M. Klein, N.D. Weinstein, Social Comparison and Unrealistic Optimism About Personal Risk. F.X. Gibbons, M. Gerrard, Health Images and Their Effects on Health Behavior. S.J. Misovich, J.D. Fisher, W.A. Fisher, Social Comparison Processes and AIDS Risk and AIDS Preventive Behavior. L.G. Aspinwall, Future-Oriented Aspects of Social Comparisons: A Framework for Studying Health-Related Comparison Activity. T.A. Wills, Modes and Families of Coping: An Analysis of Social Comparison and Other Cognitive and Behavioral Mechanisms. J. Suls, R. Martin, H. Leventhal, Social Comparison, Lay Referral, and the Decision to Seek Medical Care. J.A. Kulik, H.I.M. Mahler, Social Comparison, Affiliation, and Coping With Acute Medical Threats. H. Tennen, G. Affleck, Social Comparison as a Coping Process: A Critical Review and Application to Chronic Pain Disorders. J.V. Wood, K. VanderZee, Social Comparisons Among Cancer Patients: Under What Conditions Are Comparisons Upward and Downward? E. Diener, F. Fujita, Social Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being. B.P. Buunk, J.F. Ybema, Social Comparisons and Occupational Stress: The Identification-Contrast Model. A.H. Ahrens, L.B. Alloy, Social Comparison Processes in Depression. H. Leventhal, S. Hudson, C. Robitaille, Social Comparison and Health: A Process Model.

Rezensionen

"...this is a volume that is well worth reading and is highly recommended to a number of different audiences. The information is presented with a high degree of scholarship and integration, making this an ideal specialized text for senior undergraduate or graduate-level course in health psychology or applied social psychology."
Contemporary Psychology

"In general, this book is a valuable contribution to research in the field of health psychology."
Journal of Health Psychology

"...this is a volume that is well worth reading and is highly recommended to a number of different audiences. The information is presented with a high degree of scholarship and integration, making this an ideal specialized text for senior undergraduate or graduate-level course in health psychology or applied social psychology."
Contemporary Psychology

"In general, this book is a valuable contribution to research in the field of health psychology."
Journal of Health Psychology