I propose that the ways people respond to their own symptoms of depression influence the
duration of these symptoms. People who engage in ruminative responses to depression …

Examination stress and test anxiety are pervasive problems in modern society. As the
information age continues to evolve, test scores will become even more important than they …

Background Providing informal care for a person with Parkinson's disease (PD) can be a
demanding process affecting several dimensions of a caregiver's life and potentially causing …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

This volume is a sequel to the landmark work that established an exciting new field of study,
Stress, Appraisal and Coping (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984). The author now explores the …

Several existing self-report measures of coping and the relevant research using these
instruments are reviewed. Many of these coping measures suffer from a variety of …

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 …

Two studies of coping among community‐dwelling adults (N= 255,151) were used to
examine the influence of personality on coping responses, the perceived effectiveness of …

Four studies on the psychometric properties of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations
(CISS) are reported. Study 1 examined the factor structure of the CISS in samples of 832 …

In a longitudinal study of 253 bereaved adults, people with poorer social support, more
concurrent stressors, and higher levels of postloss depression reported more rumination …