Description: This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and potential methods of successful stress resistance by probing the ties that bind people in families, communities, and cultures. By focusing on the `process" rather than the `outcomes' of stress, he reshapes the stress dialogue.
Review Quotes: "May be the most important book on stress and coping since Lazarus's landmark work more than three decades ago."
(Charles D. Spielberger, University of South Florida, Tampa)
"A landmark publication that will change the way people think about stress, coping and social support...The book is a masterpiece."
(Ralf Schwarzer, Free University of Berlin, Germany)