Measuring Stress in Humans (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide for the Field
Redaktion: Ice, Gillian H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The purpose of this 2006 book is to present non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in humans, in non-laboratory (field) settings. Following the pathways of Seyle's General Adaptation Syndrome, the text first describes how to assess the psychosocial stressors of everyday life and then outlines how to measure the psychological, behavioral, neurohumeral, physiological and immunological responses to them. The book concludes with practical information on assessing special populations, analyzing the often-complicated data that are collected in field stress studies and the ethical treatment of human subjects in stress studies. It is intended to be a practical guide for developing and conducting psychophysiological stress research in human biology. This book will assist students and professionals in designing field studies of stress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511258015
• Artikelnr.: 38189145

Autorenporträt

Gillian H. Ice is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University of Osteopathic Medicine.
Gary D. James is Director of the Institute for Primary and Preventative Health Care, and Professor of Nursing and Anthropology at Binghamton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Part I. General Principles: 1. Conducting a field study of
stress: general principles Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; Part II.
Measuring Stress Responses: 2. Cultural fimensions of the dtress process:
measurement issues in fieldwork William Dressler; 3. Measuring the
emotional and behavioral response to stressors Gillian H. Ice; 4. Measuring
hormonal variation in the sympathetic adrenal medullary system:
catecholamines Daniel Brown; 5. Measuring hormonal variation in the
hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (HPA): cortisol Tessa Pollard and
Gillian H. Ice; 6. Measuring physiological changes in the cardiovascular
system: ambulatory blood pressure Gary D James; 7. Measuring immunological
markers Thomas W. McDade; Part III. Practical Issues in Studying Stress: 8.
Special populations Sharon R. Williams; 9. Study design and data analysis
Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; 10. Ethics in human subjects research
Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; 11. Epilogue: summary and future
directions Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice.