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Stress and Social Support

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Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention

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Although there are differences in how stress is conceptualized, there is agreement that challenge and threat, key features of community cataclysms, are among its most active ingredients. A major task for stress researchers is identifying pertinent individual difference variables regarding how people respond to particular types of challenge and threat. Another major task for stress researchers concerns the development of intervention programs that increase the likelihood of personal effectiveness under challenging circumstances. One intriguing finding of stress research is that, whereas some people seem to deteriorate rapidly under stress, others show only minimal or moderate deterioration; still others seem unaffected. Stress can be a catastrophe, but it can also be an opportunity for personal growth. It brings forth coping efforts that vary in effectiveness.

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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Irwin G. Sarason & Barbara R. Sarason

  2. Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA

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  1. Applied Psychology Center, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

    Stevan E. Hobfoll

  2. Department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, Section of Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, University of Limburg and the International Institute for Psycho-social and Socio-ecological Research (IPSER), Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Marten W. de Vries

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Sarason, I.G., Sarason, B.R., Pierce, G.R. (1995). Stress and Social Support. In: Hobfoll, S.E., de Vries, M.W. (eds) Extreme Stress and Communities: Impact and Intervention. NATO ASI Series, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8486-9_8

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