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Title:
Health, coping, and well-being : perspectives from social comparison theory / edited by Bram P. Buunk, Frederick X. Gibbons.
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Copyright Date:
1997
Description:
ix, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Clinical health psychology.
Social perception.
Self-perception.
Comparison (Psychology)
Health attitudes.
Health behavior.
Other Authors:
Buunk, Bram.
Gibbons, Frederick X.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Social comparison and health : a process model / Howard Leventhal, Shawna Hudson and Chantal Robitaille. Social comparison and unrealistic optimism about personal risk / William M. Klein and Neil D. Weinstein -- Health images and their effects on health behavior / Frederick X. Gibbons and Meg Gerrard -- Social comparison processes and AIDS risk and AIDS preventive behavior / Stephen J. Misovich, Jeffrey D. Fisher and William A. Fisher -- Future-oriented aspects of social comparisons : a framework for studying health-related comparison activity / Lisa G. Aspinwall -- Modes and families of coping : an analysis of social comparison in the structure of other cognitive and behavioral mechanisms / Thomas Ashby Wills -- Social comparison, lay referral and the decision to seek medical care / Jerry Suls, Rene Martin and Howard Leventhal -- Social comparison, affiliation and coping with acute medical threats / James A. Kulik and Heike I.M. Mahler -- Social comparison as a coping process : a critical review and application to chronic pain disorders / Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck -- Social comparisons among cancer patients : under what conditions are comparisons upward and downward / Joanne V. Wood and Karen VanderZee -- Social comparisons and subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Fran Fujita -- Social comparisons and occupational stress : the identification-contrast model / Bram P. Buunk and Jan F. Ybema -- Social comparison processes in depression / Anthony H. Ahrens and Lauren B. Alloy -- Social comparison and health : a process model / Howard Leventhal, Shawna Hudson and Chantal Robitaille.
ISBN:
9780805818581 (alk. paper)
0805818588 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)36170569
LCCN:
96054802
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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