EMOTIONAL HEALTH IN EXTREME AND NORMAL ENVIRONMENTS

Certain demographic and social background factors, notably age and education, tend to have constant relationships to the amount of symptomatology expressed, regardless of variations in environmental conditions. Under the conditions of prolonged group isolation and confinement experienced at Antarcti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunderson, E. K.
Other Authors: NAVY MEDICAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH UNIT SAN DIEGO CA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1967
Subjects:
Psychology
Medicine and Medical Research
*STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY)
*CONFINEMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
REPRINTS
QUESTIONNAIRES
PERSONALITY
ANTARCTIC REGIONS
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ADJUSTMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
ANXIETY
EMOTIONS
CONFINED ENVIRONMENTS
Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0661364
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0661364
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Summary:Certain demographic and social background factors, notably age and education, tend to have constant relationships to the amount of symptomatology expressed, regardless of variations in environmental conditions. Under the conditions of prolonged group isolation and confinement experienced at Antarctic scientific stations, a number of relationships appeared between social background or personality characteristics and emotional symptoms which were not present under less extreme conditions. We have attempted to demonstrate that susceptibility to emotional disturbances is importantly related to and predictable from specific personal and social characteristics, including occupational role, and that certain relationships only appear after prolonged mild stress.

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