Record details

• ISBN: 9781606235591 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 1606235591 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xvi, 432 p. : ill. 23 cm.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Publisher: New York ; Guilford, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:

This ed. originally published: 2007.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 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 -- aspects of coping -- Developmental studies of coping -- Stress-related growth and transformational coping -- Self-regulation, self-development, and wisdom.

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Subject:

Stress (Psychology)
Adjustment (Psychology)
Stress (Psychology) > Research.
Adjustment (Psychology) > Research.
Developmental psychology.
Mind and body.
Adaptation, Psychological.
Stress, Psychological > prevention & control.
Human Development.