Stress, Coping and Development: An Integrative Perspective - Softcover

Aldwin, Carolyn M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572305436 ISBN 13: 9781572305434

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1999

Synopsis

This volume provides a much-needed integration of major issues and research in the field of stress and coping. Focusing on transactions between mind and body and between persons and environments, the book examines how physiological, psychological, social, and cultural factors come together to influence both what people perceive as stressful and how they cope with it. Basic conceptual and methodological issues are reviewed in depth, and the strengths and weaknesses of various research models and measurement techniques are detailed. Topics covered include the psychophysiology of stress; the relationship between coping and health; coping with trauma; the development of coping strategies through the lifespan; cultural ramifications of coping; and the adaptive effects of stress.

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About the Author

Carolyn M. Aldwin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of California, Davis. A consulting editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, she also serves as a reviewer for a number of health psychology, behavioral medicine, and gerontology journals.

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Contents
Foreword, Lazarus
Preface
1. Introduction and Purpose of the Book
2. Conceptual Issues in Stress Research
3. Definitions of Stress
4. Design and Measurement Issues in Stress Research
5. Conceptual Issues in Coping Research
6. Theoretical Approaches to Coping
7. Measurement of Coping Strategies
8. Statistical Issues in Coping Research
9. Coping and Health
10. Coping with Traumatic Stress
11. Culture, Stress, and Coping
12. Developmental Studies of Coping
13. Transformational Coping
14. Toward a New Theory of Adaptation

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572305436
• ISBN 13: 9781572305434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331