The goal of this chapter is to review conceptual and empirical progress in the study of the
development of coping and to identify important ways in which this work may be useful to …

Research on coping during childhood and adolescence is distinguished by its focus on how
children deal with actual stressors in real-life contexts. Despite burgeoning literatures within …

This chapter identifies four challenges to the study of the development of coping and
regulation and outlines specific theoretical and empirical strategies for addressing them. The …

Facilitating adaptive coping in children, adolescents, and adults depends in part on
adequate knowledge of how coping skills develop across the life span. Therefore, an …

Children and adolescents encounter stress and adversity in the numerous threats,
challenges, and losses that are an inevitable part of development. Stress serves both as a …

Coping and development seem inherently inter-connected. No account of coping is
complete without acknowledging the central role that age-graded factors play in shaping an …

We summarize progress in the developmental study of coping, including specification of a
multilevel framework, construction of definitions of coping that rely on regulation as a core …

Despite consensus that development shapes every aspect of coping, studies of age
differences in coping have proven difficult to integrate, primarily because they examine …

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 …

The general purpose of this review is to briefly describe the historical foundations of coping
research covering how it has evolved, over the past three to four decades, from research …