Public Crises and Personal Threat

Glynis M. Breakwell, Daniel B. Wright

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781529617313, 9781529617320
• eBook ISBN: 9781529678963
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

With an emphasis on the practical, this book explains how people react to different sorts of crises, whether they be economic, environmental, health or war, and how we can better support the public, our families, and ourselves in future crises.

The book interrogates how public crises are individualised, thought about, emotionally felt, and also mistrusted, all with a view to helping us understand some of the most difficult times we endure.

Ideal for applied psychology students, public planning authorities and those specialising in crisis management this book will help us all to better understand the time we live in.

Dame Glynis M. Breakwell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath in the Department of Psychology and has Visiting Professorships at Imperial College, London and the University of Surrey.

Daniel B. Wright is Professor of Educational Assessment, in the Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the Author
• Preface
• 1 Public Crisis? What Crisis?
• 2 Public Crises are Individualised
• 3 Personal Threat and Thinking
• 4 Emotions: Public and Personal
• 5 Habits and Habituation in Public Crises
• 6 Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values
• 7 Social Support During Public Crises
• 8 Group Dynamics in Public Crises
• 9 Crises and Trust
• 10 Identity Resilience and Personal Threat
• 11 Beyond Risk: Post-Catastrophe Threat
• 12 Nexus of Public Crisis Reactions
• Appendix 1 Identity Resilience Index (IRI)
• Appendix 2 Unlv Case Study
• References
• Index