The effects of environmental change on individuals and groups: Some neglected issues in stress research

Aldwin, Carolyn M.; Stokols, Daniel

doi:10.1016/s0272-4944(88)80023-9

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“…However, environments that are too predictable and controllable can become so boring and unchallenging that they constrain opportunities for coping creatively with novel situations, thereby impeding developmental growth (Aldwin & Stokols, 1988;S. Kaplan, 1983;Schaefer & Moos, in press).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Health-promotive Environmentsmentioning

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Establishing and maintaining healthy environments: Toward a social ecology of health promotion.

Stokols¹

1992

American Psychologist

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Section: Conceptualizing Health-promotive Environmentsmentioning

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Establishing and maintaining healthy environments: Toward a social ecology of health promotion.

Stokols¹

1992

American Psychologist

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“…One suggestion as to development of agency and pathways perceptions has been attributed to a deviation-amplifying feedback process (Aldwin, 1994;Aldwin & Stokols, 1988). The psychological growth described above can be thought of as an adaptive spiral in which hope characteristics are cumulatively enhanced.…”

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Hope, hopelessness, and coping: A framework for class‐distinctive cognitive capital

Henry

2004

Psychology and Marketing

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Evidence that a variety of psychological dispositions vary systematically with social class has been reported in the marketing literature over the last 50 years. However, recent work has been extremely limited. Research progress has been stifled because of poor conceptual specification and lack of an integrative framework capable of grounding these dispositions in theory. This article draws upon the psychology of coping-specifically harnessing hope/hopelessness theories-to develop a much-needed framework. This will facilitate clear conceptual specification of the psychological dispositions where social class distinctions have been proposed, and specify the relations between each of the dispositions. The term cognitive capital is introduced to capture the idea that one's mix of psychological dispositions operates as a system that can be thought of as an important type of resource that is gradationally distributed with social class level. This cognitive-capital system impacts life chances and quality-of-life outcomes via the predominant pattern of coping responses that are employed in dealing with the many adversities, threats, and challenges that life typically presents. The framework provides academics with a vehicle to progress understanding of these psychological phenomena, marketing communicators with an enriched picture of class-based distinctions, and public policy makers with an understanding of levers that contribute to social inequality.

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“…Possible response categories are suggested as: resist the change before and during its occurrence, accept it, ignore it, adapt personal environment to mitigate the perceived impact, promote it as a personal or broader social benefit, or physically relocate (for additional information about the model see Zube and. This model is similar in concept to the systems perspective advocated recently by Aldwin and Stokols (1988) in their literature review of relationships between environmental change and stress. In that review they conclude "... models of the impact of environmental change and stress should account for contextual factors such as the timing, sequencing and scope of change, as well as crucial personal factors such as coping skills and resources" (p. 71).…”

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Landscape change: Perceptions and physical measures

Zube

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Simcox

1989

Environmental Management

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This paper addresses questions of affective responses of residents of rural Arizona to changes in proximate community and riparian landscapes and the congruence of their perceptions of change with physical measures of change in those landscapes. Based on findings and concepts from previous studies, perceptions of change were assessed using a mail survey. Physical measures of land use and vegetation change were obtained from aerial photography for two points in time spanning approximately 13 years and were analyzed using a geographic information system. Significant differences were found in perceptions of change in the community and riparian landscapes. In contrast with previous findings, a majority of respondents found the changes as either improving or having no effect on landscape quality. Those who were more frequent users of the riparian landscape tended to be more aware of changes in it. The findings also suggest challenges for planners and resource managers working in rural areas adjacent to riparian landscapes.Environmental designers and planners are agents of environmental change. There has been little systematic investigation, however, of how the users of such changed environments perceive and respond to these planned changes ). There has been even less attention paid to the perceptions of and responses to the seemingly unplanned, incremental, sometimes disjointed, and frequently rapid changes associated with the conversion of rural agricultural, grazing, and wooded landscapes to rural suburban landscapes. These changes are frequently preceded by the cessation of farming and the apparent transformation of farmlands to seemingly natural areas.This paper begins to explore perceptions of change in rural landscapes. It is based on data from one of a series of studies that span approximately eight years, each of which addressed--among a number of questions-how residents of Arizona perceive and/or respond to changes in the landscape.

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The effects of environmental change on individuals and groups: Some neglected issues in stress research

Cited by 75 publications

References 37 publications

Establishing and maintaining healthy environments: Toward a social ecology of health promotion.

Establishing and maintaining healthy environments: Toward a social ecology of health promotion.

Hope, hopelessness, and coping: A framework for class‐distinctive cognitive capital

Landscape change: Perceptions and physical measures

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