Historically, coping has been viewed as a response to emotion. Our purpose here is to
evaluate this idea and offer a broader view based on cognitive and relational principles …

Dual-process theories of the mind are ubiquitous in psychology. A central principle of these
theories is that behavior is determined by the interplay of automatic and controlled …

Stress is not new experience to all of us, it's seen as modern society's illness, as most
people, no matter how well adjusted, will suffer at least short-term distress while they …

In 1970 a very concrete experience occurred which led to a fundamental turning point in my
work as a medical sociologist. I was in the midst of analysis of the data in a study of …

We developed a multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which
people respond to stress. Five scales (of four items each) measure conceptually distinct …

Studies of coping in applied settings often confront the need to minimize time demands on
participants. The problem of participant response burden is exacerbated further by the fact …

Despite the importance that is attributed to coping as a factor in psychological and somatic
health outcomes, little is known about actual coping processes, the variables that influence …

This book is a reader-friendly description of a viewpoint on human behavior which sees all
behavior as aimed at attaining goals. A wide variety of topics are treated (the theory is …

There is widespread conviction among health care professionals that coping affects
emotion. Yet theory and research have traditionally emphasized the effects of emotion on …

The structure of coping was examined in three studies by means of Wherry's approach to
hierarchical factor analysis. A hierarchical model with three levels was identified that …