The Social Psychology of Health: The Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology

by Stuart Oskamp and Shirlynn Spacapan

The two major features of health psychology - psychosocial mediators of health status and health promotion programmes - are addressed in this volume. Focusing on social, cognitive and contextual factors which may reduce or prevent stress associated with illness, the first part discusses normative data collected for Cohens Perceived Stress Scale, cognitive factors of 'perceived control, practical implications for intervention and the effect of social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080393162X
• ISBN13: 9780803931626
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.