Stress and the life course: A paradigmatic alliance
Stress and the life course: A paradigmatic alliance
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/36.2.239
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发表时间：
1996-04-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Skaff, MM
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作者：
Pearlin, LI;Skaff, MM
对压力过程和生命历程的研究都与改变生活有关。然而，指导这两个领域工作的概念范式在很大程度上是分离的，相互借鉴很少。这篇文章探讨了社会压力的研究可能受益于生命历程的观点，相反，那些在生命历程的研究可能会有益地利用压力研究的Vantage。在第一种情况下，生命历程轨迹的意识可以敏感的压力研究人员的重组的生活随着时间的推移，特别是不断变化的景观的压力源，人们所面临的和变化，他们获得的资源，在处理压力。就其本身而言，压力研究可能有助于澄清一些基本的生命过程结构。因此，它直接关注有助于定义历史群体的经验独特性的条件，以及产生群体内变异的条件。它还有助于提供一个解释框架，以了解过渡事件的时间和顺序如何影响人们的生活。最后，压力过程的观点也与生活满意度和成功老龄化结构的批判性评估相关。
Research both into the stress process and into the life course is concerned with changing lives. Yet, the conceptual paradigms that guide the work of these two fields are largely segregated, borrowing little from each other. This article explores some of the junctures at which the study of social stress might benefit from life-course perspectives and, conversely, those at which life-course research might profitably employ the vantage points of stress research. In the first case, an awareness of life-course trajectories can sensitize stress researchers to the restructuring of lives across time, particularly to the shifting landscape of stressors to which people are exposed and changes in their access to resources in dealing with the stressors. For its part, stress research may be useful in clarifying some basic life-course constructs. Thus, it fan direct attention to conditions that help to define the experiential distinctiveness of historical cohorts and to conditions that produce intracohort variations. It is also useful in providing an interpretive framework for understanding how the timing and sequencing of transitional events impact people's lives. The perspectives of the stress process, finally, are also relevant to the critical appraisal of the constructs of life satisfaction and successful aging.