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Stress Factors and Stress Coping Among Inhabitants of New Guinea

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In addition to the attempt to contrast some of the stressors1 and stress-coping processes of “primitive” ethnic groups living under Stone Age conditions with these of the modern Western world, in this chapter I should like to draw attention to the responsibility of the west toward the traditional societies, especially with regard to the major absence of stress in their lives in their natural environment.

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  1. Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, PO Box 700 55, Santiago 7, Chile

    Fernando Lolas M.D.

  2. Forschungsgruppe Streß Medizinische Univ.-Klinik, Universität Heidelberg, Alte Bergheimer Straße 5, 6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    Horst Mayer

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Schiefenhövel, W. (1987). Stress Factors and Stress Coping Among Inhabitants of New Guinea. In: Lolas, F., Mayer, H. (eds) Perspectives on Stress and Stress-Related Topics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69057-0_4

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