E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Web PDF
Lynn / Eysenck Personality and National Character
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-8677-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology
E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Web PDF
ISBN: 978-1-4831-8677-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Personality and National Character analyses the underlying factors that contribute to the national character of a people from the point of view of modern psychology. The book focuses mainly in the manifestations of the level of anxiety. Chapters discuss such topics as anxiety and psychosis; suicide and alcoholism; the relation between anxiety and sex; anxiety and economic growth; climatic effects on anxiety; and anxiety and race. Psychiatrists, sociologists, economists, psychologists, and educators will find the book invaluable.
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1;Front Cover;1
2;Personality and National Character;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;PREFACE;8
6;INTRODUCTION;10
7;CHAPTER 1. NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL ILLNESS AND CALORIE INTAKE;16
8;CHAPTER 2. SUICIDE AND ALCOHOLISM;21
9;CHAPTER 3. ANXIETY;31
10;CHAPTER 4. ANXIETY AND PSYCHOSIS;39
10.1;1. Physiological;40
10.2;2. Pavlovian Work on Psychosis;43
10.3;3. The Factor-analysis Approach;54
10.4;4. Epidemiological Data;57
11;CHAPTER 5. SUICIDE, CALORIE INTAKE AND ALCOHOLISM;63
11.1;1. Suicide;63
11.2;2. Calorie Intake;65
11.3;3. Alcoholism;68
12;CHAPTER 6. ANXIETY IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;72
13;CHAPTER 7. ACCIDENT-PRONENESS AND AGGRESSION;80
14;CHAPTER 8. ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE;88
15;CHAPTER 9. DUODENAL ULCERS AND ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION;91
16;CHAPTER 10. TOBACCO CONSUMPTION;98
17;CHAPTER 11. SEX AND CELIBACY;102
18;CHAPTER 12. ANXIETY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH;107
19;CHAPTER 13. A FACTOR-ANALYTIC TREATMENT OF THE PROBLEM;116
20;CHAPTER 14. FURTHER INSTANCES OF THE ANXIETY FACTOR;121
21;CHAPTER 15. SOME DETERMINANTS OF NATIONAL ANXIETY LEVELS;134
22;CHAPTER 16. CLIMATIC EFFECTS ON ANXIETY;141
22.1;1. Summer Heat;141
22.2;2. Solar radiation;164
22.3;3. Storms and Electromagnetic Long Waves;165
22.4;4. Conclusion;170
23;CHAPTER 17. ANXIETY AND RACE;171
24;CHAPTER 18. A SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT;194
25;REFERENCES;197
26;INDEX;210
27;OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY;216
