The Social Context of Coping

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction and Overview

   • John Eckenrode

   Pages 1-12

3. Situations and Processes of Coping

   • Elaine Wethington, Ronald C. Kessler

   Pages 13-29

4. Children and Divorce

   • Donald Wertlieb

   Pages 31-54

5. Development, Stress, and Role Restructuring

   • Carol S. Aneshensel, Susan Gore

   Pages 55-77

6. Age Differences in Workers’ Efforts to Cope with Economic Distress

   • Karen Rook, David Dooley, Ralph Catalano

   Pages 79-105

7. Gender Differences in Coping with Emotional Distress

   • Peggy A. Thoits

   Pages 107-138

8. Gender, Stress, and Distress

   • Susan Gore, Mary Ellen Colten

   Pages 139-163

9. Stress and Support Processes in Close Relationships

   • Benjamin H. Gottlieb, Fred Wagner

   Pages 165-188

10. Effects of Depression on Social Support in a Community Sample of Women

    • Mary Amanda Dew, Evelyn J. Bromet

    Pages 189-211

11. Marital Engagement/Disengagement, Social Networks, and Mental Health

    • Nan Lin, Jeanne Westcott

    Pages 213-237

12. Translating Coping Theory into an Intervention

    • Susan Folkman, Margaret Chesney, Leon McKusick, Gail Ironson, David S. Johnson, Thomas J. Coates

    Pages 239-260

13. The Study of Coping

    • Leonard I. Pearlin

    Pages 261-276

14. Back Matter

    Pages 277-285

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I am very pleased to have been asked to do abrief foreword to this second CRISP volume, The Social Context o[ Coping. I know most of the participants and their work, and respect them as first-rate and influen­ tial research scholars whose research is at the cusp of current concerns in the field of stress and coping. Psychological stress is central to human adaptation. It is difficult to visualize the study of adaptation, health, illness, personal soundness, and psychopathology without recognizing their dependence on how weil people cope with the stresses of living. Since the editor, John Eckenrode, has portrayed the themes of each of the chapters in his introduction, I can limit myself to a few general comments about stress and coping. Stress research began, as unexplored fields often do, with very sim­ ple-should I say simplistic?-ideas about how to define the concept. Early approaches were unidimensional and input-output in outlook, modeled implicitly on Hooke's late-17th-century engineering analysis in which external load was an environmental stressor, stress was the area over wh ich the load acted, and strain was the deformation of the struc­ tu re such as a bridge or building.

• environment
• psychopathology
• stress

• Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  John Eckenrode

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