Measuring Stress in Humans A Practical Guide for the Field [Paperback]

Originally published in 2006, this book provides in-depth guidelines for designing a field project on stress.This 2006 book provides in-depth guidelines for designing a field project on stress in humans. It provides pros and cons of various methods and guides the researcher through every aspect of study design from what containers to use to collect samples, to the most appropriate measures and statistical analysis.This 2006 book provides in-depth guidelines for designing a field project on stress in humans. It provides pros and cons of various methods and guides the researcher through every aspect of study design from what containers to use to collect samples, to the most appropriate measures and statistical analysis.The purpose of this 2006 book is to present non-invasive methods of measuring the biological responses to psychosocial stress in humans, in non-laboratory (field) settings. Following the pathways of Seyle's General Adaptation Syndrome, the text first describes how to assess the psychosocial stressors of everyday life and then outlines how to measure the psychological, behavioral, neurohumeral, physiological and immunological responses to them. The book concludes with practical information on assessing special populations, analyzing the often-complicated data that are collected in field stress studies and the ethical treatment of human subjects in stress studies. It is intended to be a practical guide for developing and conducting psychophysiological stress research in human biology. This book will assist students and professionals in designing field studies of stress.Foreword; Part I. General Principles: 1. Conducting a field study of stress: general principles Gary D. James and Gillian H. Ice; Part II. Measuring Stress Responses: 2. Cultural fimensions of the dtress process: measurement issues in fieldwork William Dressler; 3. Measuring the emotional and behavioral response to stressors Gillian H. Ice; 4. Measuring hormonal variation in the sympatheticl£,