Stevan E. Hobfoll

Conservation of resources: A new attempt at conceptualizing stress.

Major perspectives concerning stress are presented with the goal of clarifying the nature of what has proved to be a heuristic but vague construct. Current conceptualizations of...

Stress, Social Support, And Women

Stress, Dependency, and Social Support: Who Benefits from Husband's Presence in Delivery?

Husband's presence at delivery was found to limit emotional distress to a greater extent among women giving birth for the first time (high stress) and among women high on depend...

Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation

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 pr...