Younger J B
Department of Maternal & Child Nursing, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 1991 Sep;14(1):76-89. doi: 10.1097/00012272-199109000-00009.
Mastery is a human response to difficult or stressful circumstances in which competency, control, and dominion have been gained over the experience of stress. The goal of the theory of mastery is to explain how individuals who experience illness or other stressful health conditions may emerge, not demoralized and vulnerable, but healthy and possibly stronger. The human response to stress is fundamentally an existential problem. As such, the theory of mastery has philosophic as well as conceptual roots.
掌控是人类对困难或压力情境的一种反应,在此情境中,人们已在压力体验方面获得了能力、控制和主宰。掌控理论的目标是解释那些经历疾病或其他压力性健康状况的个体如何能够以健康甚至可能更强壮的姿态出现,而非士气低落且脆弱不堪。人类对压力的反应从根本上来说是一个存在主义问题。因此,掌控理论既有哲学根源,也有概念根源。