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Coping with Chronic Stress

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Benjamin H. Gottlieb

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

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Part of the book series: Springer Series on Stress and Coping (SSSO)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Conceptual and Measurement Issues in the Study of Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Benjamin H. Gottlieb
      Pages 3-40

  3. Theory and Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. The Nature of Chronic Stress

      • Blair Wheaton
      Pages 43-73

    3. Theories of Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Carolyn M. Aldwin, Jennifer Brustrom
      Pages 75-103

    4. Effortful and Involuntary Responses to Stress

      • Bruce E. Compas, Jennifer Connor, Dana Osowiecki, Amy Welch
      Pages 105-130

  4. The Social Context of Coping with Chronic Stress

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Social—Environmental Influences on the Chronic Stress Process

      • Stephen J. Lepore
      Pages 133-160

    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
      Pages 191-220

    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

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Changes in Coping with Chronic Stress

      • Monique A. M. Gignac, Benjamin H. Gottlieb
      Pages 245-267

    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
      Pages 269-290

  6. Illustrations of Coping with Pervasive Life Difficulties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
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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
      Pages 293-314

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

      • Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Zev Harel, Kathy Kelly, Pam Monaghan, Lani Holland
      Pages 315-342

    4. Coping with Chronic Work Stress

      • C. Gail Hepburn, Catherine A. Loughlin, Julian Barling
      Pages 343-366

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 367-370
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About this book

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.

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

    Benjamin H. Gottlieb

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