Conservation of Resources A New Attempt at Conceptualizing Stress资源保护：概念化压力的新尝试.pdf

Conservation of Resources A New Attempt at Conceptualizing Stress Stevan E. Hobfoll Kent State University ABSTRACT: Major perspectives concerning stress are search that is conducted. In addition, it will be argued presented with the goal of clarifying the nature of what that current models are tautological and so can do little has proved to be a heuristic but vague construct. Current to move stress investigators toward new horizons of re- conceptualizations of stress are challenged as being too search. Yet, because they are tautological, they can never phenomenological and ambiguous, and consequently, not be rejected either. Finally, a new stress model will be pre- given to direct empirical testing. Indeed, it is argued that sented called the model of conservation of resources. It researchers have tended to avoid theproblem of defining is proposed that this model is more directly testable, stress, choosing to study stress without reference to a clear comprehensive, and parsimonious than previous ap- framework. A new stress model called the model of con- proaches and that it provides a dearer direction for future servation of resources ispresented as an alternative. This research on stress and stress resistance. resource-oriented model is based on the supposition that people strive to retain, protect, and build resources and The Cannon-Selye Tradition that what is threatening to them is thepotential or actual The term stress is loosely borrowed from the field of loss of th