Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and purpose of the book
  • Why is stress important?
  • Definitions of stress
  • The physiology of stress
  • Design and measurement issues in stress research
  • Why is coping important?
  • Theoretical approaches to coping
  • Measurement of coping strategies
  • Statistical issues in coping research
  • Coping and mental health
  • Coping and physical health
  • Coping with traumatic stress
  • Sociocultural aspects of coping
  • Developmental studies of coping
  • Stress-related growth and transformational coping
  • Self-regulation, self-development, and wisdom.