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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778898403321

Autore

Lazarus Richard S

Titolo

Emotion and adaptation [[electronic resource] /] / Richard S. Lazarus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1991

ISBN

0-19-773527-4

1-280-44098-8

0-19-536147-4

1-60129-825-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (572 p.)

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Emotions

Adaptability (Psychology)

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 (p. 471-519) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. About Emotion; 2. Issues of Research, Classification, and Measurement; 3. The Person-Environment Relationship, Motivation, and Coping; 4. Cognition and Emotion; 5. Issues of Causality; 6. Goal Incongruent (Negative) Emotions; 7. Goal Congruent (Positive) and Problematic Emotions; 8. Individual Development; 9. Social Influence; 10. Emotions and Health; 11. Implications for Research, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this landmark work, Richard Lazarus -- one of the world's foremost authorities -- offers a comprehensive treatment of the psychology of emotion, its role in adaptation, and the issues that must be addressed to understand it. The work provides a complete theory of emotional processes, explaining how different emotions are elicited and expressed, and how the emotional range of individuals develops over their lifetime. The author's approach puts emotion in a central role as a complex, patterned, organic reaction to both daily events and long-term efforts on the part of the individual to surviv