This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between
persons and their social connectedness within family tribe and culture. Stress Culture and
Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build protect and
foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments.
Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and potential methods of
successful stress resistance by probing the ties that bind people in families communities and
cultures. By focusing on the `process rather than the `outcomes' of stress he reshapes the
stress dialogue.
