Stress, coping, and development : an integrative perspective (engelsk)

Carolyn M. Aldwin

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Summary: How do people cope with stressful experiences? What makes a coping strategy effective for a particular individual? This volume comprehensively examines the nature of psychosocial stress and the implications of different coping strategies for adaptation and health across the lifespan. Carolyn M. Aldwin synthesizes a vast body of knowledge within a conceptual framework that emphasizes the transactions between mind and body and between persons and environments. She analyzes different kinds of stress.

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Why is stress important? -- Definitions of stress -- The physiology of stress -- Design and measurement issues in stress -- 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