ABSTRACT
With some basic ideas about the person in the environment in mind, we now turn to the context within which the person operates, the environment. The way in which the environment impacts upon the person could be considered in a number of ways. One way is to consider two categories of impact: the environment as a setting for behaviour, the ecological perspective; and the environment as a source of demand on the person. The former begins with the seminal work of Barker and Wright (1955) on behaviour settings, and leads to the work of Cantor in the UK and Stokols in the USA on place, while the latter tends to be subsumed under the area of stress, particularly the stimulus model of stress (Cassidy, 1994b).
