Coping and Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Environmental Contingencies as Sources of Stress in Animals

   • J. Bruce Overmier, Jeff Patterson, Richard M. Wielkiewicz

   Pages 1-38

3. Psychobiology of Coping in Animals: The Effects of Predictability

   • Joanne Weinberg, Seymour Levine

   Pages 39-59

4. Associative and Non-Associative Mechanisms in the Development of Tolerance for Stress

   • Jeffrey A. Gray, Susan Owen, Nicola Davis, Joram Feldon

   Pages 61-81

5. Associative and Non-Associative Mechanisms in the Development of Tolerance for Stress: The Problem of State-Dependent Learning

   • J. N. P. Rawlins

   Pages 83-86

6. A Coping Model of Mother-Infant Relationships

   • Seymour Levine

   Pages 87-99

7. Contingent Stimulation: A Review of its Role in Early Development

   • Megan R. Gunnar

   Pages 101-119

8. Early Adolescence as a Life Stress

   • Beatrix A. Hamburg

   Pages 121-143

9. When is a Little Information a Dangerous Thing? Coping with Stressful Events by Monitoring Versus Blunting

   • Suzanne M. Miller

   Pages 145-169

10. Managing the Stress of Aging: The Role of Control and Coping

    • Judith Rodin

    Pages 171-202

11. Psychobiological Aspects of Life Stress

    • Marianne Frankenhaeuser

    Pages 203-223

12. Adrenocortical Responses of Humans to Group Hierarchy, Confinement and Social Interaction

    • Joan Vernikos-Danellis

    Pages 225-232

13. Coping with Mental Work Load

    • G. Mulder, L. J. M. Mulder

    Pages 233-258

14. Personality, Activation and Somatic Health a New Psychosomatic Theory

    • Holger Ursin

    Pages 259-279

15. Experimentally Induced Gastric Ulceration: A Model Disorder for Psychosomatic Research

    • Robert Murison

    Pages 281-293

16. Coping and Health a Clinician’s Perspective

    • John Cullen

    Pages 295-322

17. A Perspective on the Effects of Stress and Coping on Disease and Health

    • Neal E. Miller

    Pages 323-353

18. Back Matter

    Pages 355-364

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This volume contains fifteen papers by invited participants delivered at the NATO International Workshop on Coping and Health held March 26 through March 30, 1979, at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy. The editors of the book were co-directors of the workshop as well as participants. The conference was a small conference consisting of only 20 scientists and was designed to be an intensive period of exchange of ideas dealing with a range of topics varying from experimental models of coping through coping and its psychosomatic implications. The exceptional beauty of the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, the hospitality of the staff at the Conference Center as well as the support of the administrative staff of the Rockefeller Foundation, combined with the intensity and enthusiasm of the participants made the conference a most memorable one for those who attended it. A special thanks is in order for the help and assistance of Dr. B. A. Bayraktar, Executive Officer of Human Factors Program, Scientific Affairs Division, NATO, and Miss Susan Garfield, Program Director of the Rockefeller Foundation. Needless to say, without their participation and help at all points in the organization and planning of this conference, the conference would not have occurred.

• Italy
• NATO
• coping
• experiment
• health
• hospital
• organization
• organizations
• planning
• stress

• Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, USA

  Seymour Levine

• Department of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

  Holger Ursin

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