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The Moral Psychology of Resource Use

2016
This chapter draws attention to an increasing pressure point in decision making around resource use and resource allocation. With a growing human population, the requirements for resources to meet basic human needs are increasing. At the same time, humans globally are becoming sensitive to the needs and rights of nonhumans, leading to an increased ...
Bastian, Brock, Crimston, Daniel
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Social and Psychological Resources in the Oldest Old

Experimental Aging Research, 1996
The purpose of this study was to compare mental health resources, activities of daily living, and social and economic resources in three age groups: centenarians, octogenarians, and sexagenarians. Two hundred and seventy-two older adults were assessed with the Older Americans Resources and Services Survey (OARS).
P, Martin, L W, Poon, E, Kim, M A, Johnson   +3 more
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Psychological resources and cigarette smoking in adolescents

British Journal of Psychology, 1986
Despite society's increasing awareness of the adverse health consequences of cigarette use, adolescents continue to take up smoking. This study suggests that adolescents may smoke in order to alleviate the stress engendered by the adjustment demands of this period and that adolescents with fewer coping resources should be more likely to use cigarettes.
G N, Penny, J O, Robinson
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Psychological Resources and Distress

2001
In hard times, some workers find a reason to believe in themselves and their futures. Others find despair. What is the difference between those who say, “the whole plant closing thing toughened me up,” and those who claim that “everybody blames us”? This chapter provides more pieces of the puzzle.
Clifford L. Broman, V. Lee Hamilton, William S. Hoffman   +2 more
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Resources in Psychological Anthropology

Collection Building, 1984
The study of psychological anthropology represents the interworkings of the theories, concepts, empirical findings, and methodologies of psychology and anthropology. This discussion of resources is written from the point of view of an anthropologist, not a psychologist.
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Psychological resources and successful retirement

Australian Psychologist, 1999
Abstract Although most people eventually make a satisfactory adjustment to retirement, some people experience difficulties in managing the transition. While measures of wellbeing are frequently included as outcomes in studies of retirement, few studies have examined the impact of retirement on health behaviours.
Y. D. Wells, H. L. Kendig
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Psychology as a Resource for Christian Spirituality

Horizons, 1990
AbstractPsychology is a valuable resource for spirituality when researchers incorporate mutually critical correlations in their use of this discipline. It can be used to identify pathological elements in religious practice, uncover unconscious motivation, provide developmental schemas, and describe responses to meditative experiences.
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Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation

Review of General Psychology, 2002
Psychology has increasingly turned to the study of psychosocial resources in the examination of well-being. How resources are being studied and resource models that have been proffered are considered, and an attempt is made to examine elements that bridge across models. As resource models span health, community, cognitive, and clinical psychology, the
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Political Psychology as Discipline and Resource

Political Psychology, 2001
Around the 1960s, political psychology was developed as a field of knowledge that attempted to interrelate scientific psychology and political phenomena. However, social and academic conditions are very different today. More and more, political psychology is becoming a protagonist, as much in the internal context of psychology as in the external ...
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Psychological and Social Demands and Resources

2021
Christopher J. L. Cunningham, Kristen Jennings Black   +1 more
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