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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449777503321

Titolo

Persons, situations, and emotions : an ecological approach / / edited by Hermann Brandstätter & Andrzej Eliasz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-280-47333-9

0-19-535057-X

1-60256-413-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Series in Affective Science

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Emotions

Context effects (Psychology)

Personality

Temperament

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Contents; Contributors; 1 Persons' Emotional Responses to Situations; 2 Time Sampling Diary: An Ecological Approach to the Study of Emotions in Everyday Life Situations; 3 Temperament, Type A, and Motives: A Time Sampling Study; 4 Self-Regulatory Abilities, Temperament, and Volition in Everyday Life Situations; 5 Value-Motive Congruence and Reactivity as Determinants of Well-Being; 6 Personal Resources and Organizational Well-Being; 7 Extraversion and Optimal Level of Arousal in High-Risk Work; 8 Time Sampling of Unemployment Experiences by Slovak Youth

9 Everyday Life of Commuters' Wives 10 Correspondence Analysis of Everyday Life Experience; 11 Freedom as Moderator of the Personality-Mood Relationship; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe punishment at a time when



public opinion has played a pivotal role in sentencing policy and reforms. Despite the differences among jurisdictions, startling commonalities exist among the five countries-the U.K., USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand--surveyed here. Drawing on the results of representative opinion surveys and other research tools the authors map public attitudes towards crime and punishment across