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- Title
Social attainment and reactions to stress.
- Authors
Phillips, Leslie; Cowitz, Bernard; PHILLIPS, L; COWITZ, B
- Abstract
Within the past several years the work of H. Selye and others, demonstrating the marked bodily alterations and changes undergone by an organism in its attempt to adapt to stress, has proved a strong impetus for intensive examination of the entire concept of stress. In the fields of both physiology and psychology intensive investigations have been undertaken recently and the literature of today reflects this trend. Both types of studies have ordinarily employed laboratory situations as their experimental techniques. The assumption has been made, although it has usually remained implicit, that the conditions of experimental stress are analogous to the requirements for adaptation to stress outside the laboratory. The present paper is the introduction to a series of studies which undertakes to estimate the adequacy of these assumed relationships. This seems to be a particularly clear requirement since, in the few studies which have investigated these relationships, the results have been largely negative. On the other hand, it has been observed that individuals diagnosed as schizophrenic perform less well than do normals under conditions of experimental stress. Similarly, it is commonly recognized that schizophrenics and, indeed, all individuals who manifest severe psychopathology, have shown a marked failure in adaptation to society.
- Subjects
PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; PSYCHOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL adaptation; INVESTIGATIONS; PHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONS
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 1953, Vol 22, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1953.tb01811.x