Personal coping: theory, research, and application

This volume presents current models of coping, describes the coping process, and relates that process to environmental factors, person variables, and desirable outcomes. Unlike most treatments of coping, which are organized around stress, this volume emphasizes features of the coping process that have broad relevance across many potential stressors. Although each model in the book tends to emphasize different aspects of coping, the organization around models gives each chapter a theoretical focus which will be attractive to researchers and to those applying current research to applied problems.

Issues and advances in coping research / Bruce N. Carpenter -- Conceptual and methodological issues in current coping assessments / Arthur A. Stone [and others] -- Making the case for coping / Susan Folkman -- Coping with psychosocial stress : a developmental perspective / Bruce E. Compas, Vanessa L. Malcarne, and Gerard A. Banez -- Situational determinants of coping / Robert R. McCrae -- Individual differences in the coping process : what to know and when to know it / Suzanne M. Miller -- Interpersonal aspects of coping / Bruce N. Carpenter and Susan M. Scott -- Perceived control, personal effectivensss, and emotional states / Herbert M. Lefcourt -- Temporal factors in stress and coping : intervention implications / Stephen M. Auerbach -- Life crises and personal growth / Jeanne A. Schaefer and Rudolf H. Moos -- Outcome expectancies and psychosomatic consequences / Holger Ursin and Karsten Hytten.

Religious beliefs and practices and the coping process / Crystal Park and Lawrence H. Cohen -- A theory of family competence and coping / Luciano L'Abate.