Coping with Chronic Stress

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2. Introduction

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   2. Conceptual and Measurement Issues in the Study of Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Benjamin H. Gottlieb

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3. Theory and Perspectives

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   2. The Nature of Chronic Stress

      • Blair Wheaton

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   3. Theories of Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Carolyn M. Aldwin, Jennifer Brustrom

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   4. Effortful and Involuntary Responses to Stress

      • Bruce E. Compas, Jennifer Connor, Dana Osowiecki, Amy Welch

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4. The Social Context of Coping with Chronic Stress

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   2. Social—Environmental Influences on the Chronic Stress Process

      • Stephen J. Lepore

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   3. Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Tess Byrd O’Brien, Anita DeLongis

      Pages 161-190

   4. Families Accommodating to Chronic Stress

      • Rena L. Repetti, Jenifer Wood

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   5. Reciprocity in the Expression of Emotional Support among Later-Life Couples Coping with Stroke

      • Mary Ann Parris Stephens, Sarah L. Clark

      Pages 221-242

5. Considerations of Efficacy in Coping with Chronic Stress

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   2. Changes in Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Monique A. M. Gignac, Benjamin H. Gottlieb

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   3. The Role of Two Kinds of Efficacy Beliefs in Maintaining the Well-Being of Chronically Stressed Older Adults

      • Alex J. Zautra, Jeanne M. Hoffman, John W. Reich

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6. Illustrations of Coping with Pervasive Life Difficulties

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   2. Positive Meaningful Events and Coping in the Context of HIV/AIDS

      • Susan Folkman, Judith Tedlie Moskowitz, Elizabeth M. Ozer, Crystal L. Park

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   3. A Framework for Understanding the Chronic Stress of Holocaust Survivors

      • Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Zev Harel, Kathy Kelly, Pam Monaghan, Lani Holland

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   4. Coping with Chronic Work Stress

      • C. Gail Hepburn, Catherine A. Loughlin, Julian Barling

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7. Back Matter

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Much of what we know about the subject of coping is based on human behavior and cognition during times of crisis and transition. Yet the alarms and m~or upheavals of life comprise only a portion of those experiences that call for adaptive efforts. There remains a vast array of life situations and conditions that pose continuing hardship and threat and do not promise resolution. These chronic stressors issue in part from persistently difficult life circumstances, roles, and burdens, and in part from the conversion of traumatic events into persisting adjustment challenges. Indeed, there is growing recognition of the fact that many traumatic experiences leave a long-lasting emotional residue. Whether or not coping with chronic problems differs in form, emphasis, or func­ tion from the ways people handle acute life events and transitions is one of the central issues taken up in these pages. This volume explores the varied circumstances and experiences that give rise to chronic stress, as well as the ways in which individuals adapt to and accommodate them. It addresses a number of substantive and methodological questions that have been largely overlooked or sidelined in previous inquiries on the stress and coping process.

• Holocaust
• assessment
• attention
• environment
• nature
• psychology
• stress
• well-being

• Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

  Benjamin H. Gottlieb

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