Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process Essays i
The stress process paradigm has been one of the most dominant conceptual models of health and illness over the past three decades. The contributions to this volume chart a new course for the stress process, extending the paradigm conceptually, methodologi
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Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process: Essays in Honor of Leonard I. Pearlin Edited by William R. Avison The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada Carol S. Aneshensel University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA USA Scott Schieman University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada Blair Wheaton University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada
William R. Avison Carol S. Aneshensel Scott Schieman Blair Wheaton ●
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Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process Essays in Honor of Leonard I. Pearlin
Editors William R. Avison Departments of Sociology Paediatrics and Epidemiology & Biostatistics Children’s Health Research Institute Lawson Health Research Institute The University of Western Ontario London, ON Canada Carol S. Aneshensel Department of Community Health Sciences University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA USA
Scott Schieman Department of Sociology University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada
Blair Wheaton Department of Sociology University of Toronto Toronto, ON Canada
ISBN 978-1-4419-1020-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1021-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1021-9 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938703 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
In 1981, Leonard Pearlin and his colleagues published an article that would radically shift the sociological study of mental health from an emphasis on psychiatric disorder to a focus on social structure and its consequences for stress and psychological distress. Pearlin et al. (1981) proposed a deceptively simple conceptual model that has now influenced sociological inquiry for almost three decades. With his characteristic penchant for reconsidering and elaborating his own ideas, Pearlin has revisited the stress process model periodically over the years (Pearlin 1989, 1999; Pearlin et al. 2005; Pearlin and Skaff 1996). One of the consequences of this continued theoretical elaboration of the stress process has been the development of a sociological model of stress that embraces the complexity of social life. Another consequence is that the stress process has continued to stimulate a host of empirical investigations in the sociology of men
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