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Paul Shrivastava - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Crisis Theory practice towards a sustainable future
Organization & Environment, 1993Co-Authors: Paul ShrivastavaAbstract:We are living in a world rife with many types of crises. The most prominent and urgent crises involve the earth's ecology. Environmental crises involving Ozone depletion, global warming, toxic and radioactive wastes, air pollution, industrial accidents etc. are affecting communities around the world. In this paper, I examine changes in Crisis management Theory and practice. In the past two decades, much progress has been made in our understanding of industrial and environmental crises. However, our understanding remains highly fragmented and selective. We need to integrate diverse findings and cumulatively build on past knowledge. To do this the concept of "sustainable development" provides a unifying motif. Some research questions that deserve urgent attention are identified.
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Crisis Theory/practice: towards a sustainable future:
Industrial & Environmental Crisis Quarterly, 1993Co-Authors: Paul ShrivastavaAbstract:We are living in a world rife with many types of crises. The most prominent and urgent crises involve the earth's ecology. Environmental crises involving Ozone depletion, global warming, toxic and radioactive wastes, air pollution, industrial accidents etc. are affecting communities around the world. In this paper, I examine changes in Crisis management Theory and practice. In the past two decades, much progress has been made in our understanding of industrial and environmental crises. However, our understanding remains highly fragmented and selective. We need to integrate diverse findings and cumulatively build on past knowledge. To do this the concept of "sustainable development" provides a unifying motif. Some research questions that deserve urgent attention are identified.
Hanneke C. J. M. De Haes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Explaining quality of life with Crisis Theory.
Psycho-oncology, 2002Co-Authors: Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Reike Tempelaar, Wim J.a. Van Den Heuvel, Hanneke C. J. M. De HaesAbstract:Based on the premises of Crisis Theory. we expected cancer patients in-Crisis to report a poorer quality of life (QL) and cancer patients post-Crisis to report a similar level of overall QL in comparison to healthy individuals. To explain these hypothesized findings, we expected the coping resources and strategies of patients in-Crisis to be equally effective and those of patients post-Crisis to be more effective as compared to those of healthy individuals. The sample consisted of: (a) 217 consecutive cancer patients in the acute phases of their illness (patients in-Crisis) (b) 192 disease-free cancer patients (patients post-Crisis): and (c) 201 randomly selected healthy individuals. Established measures of QL, self-esteem and neuroticism (coping resources) and coping behavior (coping strategies) were mailed. As expected. patients in-Crisis reported a poorer QL (p
R. Jay Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Major Life Events: Their Personal Meaning, Resolution, and Mental Health Significance*
Journal of health and social behavior, 2008Co-Authors: John R. Reynolds, R. Jay TurnerAbstract:Researchers have employed varying strategies in an effort to better understand variation in responses to stress. This article argues that Crisis Theory makes a useful contribution to these efforts, particularly when studying variable response to major life events that are of high threat potential. Regression analyses of depressive symptomatology, mastery, and self-esteem in a community sample of adults (n = 1,542) provide preliminary support for the central tenets of Crisis Theory that specify the conditions under which experienced events are minimally and maximally hazardous. The results also offer mixed support for the proposition that successfully resolved crises can even yield emotional and coping benefits. Longitudinal models and further development of survey-based measures for distinguishing the occurrence of a Crisis and assessing the adequacy of its resolution are needed to more thoroughly test Crisis Theory.
William R. Avison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Innovations in the measurement of life stress: Crisis Theory and the significance of event resolution.
Journal of health and social behavior, 1992Co-Authors: R J Turner, William R. AvisonAbstract:Further progress in understanding the significance of stress for psychological well-being requires improved strategies for controlling both inter- and intra-event variability across subjects studied. This paper reports on an innovation in stress measurement suggested by a proposition drawn from Crisis Theory that recognizes life events as representing opportunities as well as hazards. The crucial contingency is hypothesized to be the outcome of the event with respect to the extent of its resolution in emotional and practical terms. This paper examines the possibility that life events that have been resolved successfully may not contribute to individual stress. Data was gathered from community samples of physically limited individuals and of non-limited comparison subjects. Results from separate analyses of these data generally support this hypothesis.
Mirjam A. G. Sprangers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Explaining quality of life with Crisis Theory.
Psycho-oncology, 2002Co-Authors: Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Reike Tempelaar, Wim J.a. Van Den Heuvel, Hanneke C. J. M. De HaesAbstract:Based on the premises of Crisis Theory. we expected cancer patients in-Crisis to report a poorer quality of life (QL) and cancer patients post-Crisis to report a similar level of overall QL in comparison to healthy individuals. To explain these hypothesized findings, we expected the coping resources and strategies of patients in-Crisis to be equally effective and those of patients post-Crisis to be more effective as compared to those of healthy individuals. The sample consisted of: (a) 217 consecutive cancer patients in the acute phases of their illness (patients in-Crisis) (b) 192 disease-free cancer patients (patients post-Crisis): and (c) 201 randomly selected healthy individuals. Established measures of QL, self-esteem and neuroticism (coping resources) and coping behavior (coping strategies) were mailed. As expected. patients in-Crisis reported a poorer QL (p