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The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone - Hardcover

 
9781118427361: The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 111842736X ISBN 13: 9781118427361
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude

  • Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psychology
  • Examines different developmental periods across the lifespan, and across a broad range of contexts, including natural environments, college campuses, relationships, meditation, and cyberspace
  • Includes contributions from the leading international experts in the field
  • Covers concepts and theoretical approaches, empirical research, as well as clinical applications

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The Editors

Robert J. Coplan is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and Director of the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development. Dr. Coplan is co-editor of Social Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Contemporary Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and The Development of Shyness and Social Withdrawal (2010) and a former editor of the journal, Social Development.

Julie C. Bowker is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Her research program focuses on the roles that close interpersonal relationships play in socio-emotional development and psychopathology during late childhood and early adolescence.

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The Handbook of
SOLITUDE

Over the course of a lifespan, humans experience solitude for a wide variety of reasons and subjectively respond to seclusion with a wide range of reactions and consequences. The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone presents a comprehensive compilation of the most cutting edge psychological research related to the construct of solitude.

Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, readings explore aspects of solitary behavior from a myriad of psychological perspectives, including developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical; during different developmental periods across the lifespan; and across a broad range of contexts, including various natural environments, college campuses, singlehood, meditation, and cyberspace. Other insights into solitude are garnered through extradisciplinary researchers in fields such as biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy. Innovative and illuminating, this Handbook represents the definitive treatment of the psychological concept of solitude as an area of study.

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The Handbook of
SOLITUDE

Over the course of a lifespan, humans experience solitude for a wide variety of reasons and subjectively respond to seclusion with a wide range of reactions and consequences. The Handbook of Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone presents a comprehensive compilation of the most cutting edge psychological research related to the construct of solitude.

Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, readings explore aspects of solitary behavior from a myriad of psychological perspectives, including developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical; during di erent developmental periods across the lifespan; and across a broad range of contexts, including various natural environments, college campuses, singlehood, meditation, and cyberspace. Other insights into solitude are garnered through extradisciplinary researchers in fields such as biology, anthropology, sociology, political science, religious studies, and philosophy. Innovative and illuminating, this Handbook represents the definitive treatment of the psychological concept of solitude as an area of study.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
111842736X
ISBN 13 
9781118427361
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
608
Herausgeber
Coplan Robert J., Bowker Julie C.
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