Social psychology (sociology)

About: Social psychology (sociology) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18151 publications have been published within this topic receiving 907731 citations. The topic is also known as: Social psychology & sociological social psychology.

Social Psychology of Health and Illness

Abstract: Contents: Part I:Health-Related Personality Traits SC Kobasa, The Hardy Personality: Toward a Social Psychology of Stress and Health CS Carver, C Humphries, Social Psychology of the Type A Coronary-Prone Behavior Pattern KA Wallston, BS Wallston, Who is Responsible for Your Health? The Construct of Health Locus of Control Part II:Medical Information Processing JA Skelton, JW Pennebaker, The Psychology of Physical Symptoms and Sensations GS Sanders, Social Comparison and Perceptions of Health and Illness Part III:Professional/Client Interaction SJ Mentzer, ML Snyder, The Doctor and the Patient: A Psychological Perspective H Leventhal, RS Hirschman, Social Psychology and Prevention C Maslach, SE Jackson, Burnout in Health Professions: A Social Psychological Analysis Part IV:Environmental Influences J Suls, Social Support, Interpersonal Relations, and Health: Benefits and Liabilities A Baum, A Wallace Deckel, RJ Gatchel, Environmental Stress and Health: Is There a Relationship? R Kastenbaum, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Health Care Provision for the Elderly from a Psychological Perspective

Power and the Emergence of Commitment Behavior in Negotiated Exchange

Abstract: Dans cet article, les AA. examinent l'impact du pouvoir sur le developpement de l'engagement affectif dans les relations entre deux personnes. Lorsque l'engagement se developpe, les acteurs tendent a rester en relation en depit des alternatives et a utiliser les benefices necessaires au maintien de la relation.

Social Class and Self-Esteem Among Children and Adults

Abstract: The literature on the relationship of social class to self-esteem is riddled with contradictions, showing positive, null, and inverse relationships. Two studies examinig this relationship are compared-one, a sample of children aged 8-18; the other, a sample of adults aged 18-65. The results indicate virtually no association for younger children, a modest association for adolescents, and a moderate association for adults. Four principles of self-esteem development are advanced to account for these conditional relations-social comparison processes, reflected appraisals, self-perception theory, and psychological centrality. It is suggested that these principles apply equally to adults and children and that the identical principles help to explain why social class should have different effects on the self-esteem of children and adults.

Structures of Social Action: On doing “being ordinary”

Abstract: Usually I start the course by doing what I do in the course, without any programmatic statements and without any indication of why it should be of any interest to anybody. Now – and this may be unfair – the course will turn out to be much more severely technical than most of you could possibly be interested in, and some good percentage of people will drop out, and usually that has the consequence that they get nothing out of the class. So I decided to spend the first session telling people something that I take it could hardly not be of interest to them. Then, when they drop out, they would at least have heard what I figure would be worth the price of the course. I guess I should say that if this is not absorbing to you, you could hardly imagine how unabsorbing the rest will be. Now, in this course I will be taking stories offered in conversation and subjecting them to a type of analysis that is concerned, roughly, to see whether it is possible to subject the details of actual events to formal investigation, informatively. The gross aim of the work I am doing is to see how finely the details of actual, naturally occurring conversation can be subjected to analysis that will yield the technology of conversation.