Advances in the Conceptualization of the Stress Process

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Conceptual and Methodological Developments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Understanding Health Disparities: The Promise of the Stress Process Model

      • R. Jay Turner

      Pages 3-21

   3. Compensatory Coping with Stressors

      • Peggy A. Thoits

      Pages 23-34

   4. Neighborhood as a Social Context of the Stress Process

      • Carol S. Aneshensel

      Pages 35-52

   5. Suppression Effects in Social Stress Research and Their Implications for the Stress Process Model

      • Scott Schieman

      Pages 53-68

3. Stress Processes in Social Roles and Contexts: Family and Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 70-70

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   2. Family Structure and Women’s Lives: A Life Course Perspective

      • William R. Avison

      Pages 71-92

   3. The Stress Process Model: Some Family-Level Considerations

      • Melissa A. Milkie

      Pages 93-108

   4. Linking Early Family Adversity to Young Adult Mental Disorders

      • K. A. S. Wickrama, Rand D. Conger, Florensia F. Surjadi, Frederick O. Lorenz

      Pages 109-130

   5. Work, Family, and Their Intersection

      • Elizabeth G. Menaghan

      Pages 131-145

4. Psychosocial Concepts and Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 148-148

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   2. Sense of Mattering in Late Life

      • Elena M. Fazio

      Pages 149-176

   3. It’s Tough to Cope in Rural Mali: Financial Coping Style, Mastery, Self Confidence, and Anxiety in a Bad and Worsening Socioeconomic Environment

      • Carmi Schooler, Leslie J. Caplan, Amir Goren, Pakuy Pierre Mounkoro, Chiaka Diakité

      Pages 177-188

   4. Stress Valuation and the Experience of Parenting Stress in Late Life

      • Alex Bierman

      Pages 189-205

   5. Stress Process Applications in Child Victimization Research

      • Heather A. Turner

      Pages 207-228

5. The Evolution of the Stress Process Paradigm

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 230-230

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   2. The Stress Process as a Successful Paradigm

      • Blair Wheaton

      Pages 231-252

6. Back Matter

   Pages 253-261

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In 1981, Leonard Pearlin and his colleagues published an article that would ra- cally shift the sociological study of mental health from an emphasis on psychiatric disorder to a focus on social structure and its consequences for stress and psyc- logical distress. Pearlin et al. (1981) proposed a deceptively simple conceptual model that has now influenced sociological inquiry for almost three decades. With his characteristic penchant for reconsidering and elaborating his own ideas, Pearlin has revisited the stress process model periodically over the years (Pearlin 1989, 1999; Pearlin et al. 2005; Pearlin and Skaff 1996). One of the consequences of this continued theoretical elaboration of the stress process has been the development of a sociological model of stress that embraces the complexity of social life. Another consequence is that the stress process has continued to stimulate a host of empirical investigations in the sociology of mental health. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that the stress process paradigm has been primarily responsible for the growth and sustenance of sociological research on stress and mental health. Pearlin et al. (1981) described the core elements of the stress process in a brief paragraph: The process of social stress can be seen as combining three major conceptual domains: the sources of stress, the mediators of stress, and the manifestations of stress. Each of these extended domains subsumes a variety of subparts that have been intensively studied in recent years.

• Allostatic Load
• Diabetes and Stress
• Family Studies
• Leonard I. Pearlin
• Life Course
• Psychosocial Stress
• Public Health
• Women's Mental Health
• psychology
• social psychology

• Dept. Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

  William R. Avison

• School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

  Carol S. Aneshensel

• Fac. Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Scott Schieman, Blair Wheaton

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