
Concluding Remarks: What it All Means
Erica Frydenberg
in Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
This chapter presents concluding remarks and the effects of the research that has been detailed in this title. It summarizes the arguments and theories put forward by each chapter in the ...
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Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
Erica Frydenberg (ed.)
There are many challenges to be faced in contemporary society including the stresses of everyday living in the technological age and changes in patterns of employment and family life. ...
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Dr. Seuss, the Coping Machine, and “Oh, the Places You’ll Go”
C. R. Snyder and Kimberley Mann Pulvers
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
Chapter 1 presents a model of coping that has broad applications. It describes previous definitions of coping, and proposes a new definition, before presenting a schematic for understanding ...
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Copers Coping with Stress: Two Against One
C. R. Snyder and Kimberley Mann Pulvers
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter explores factors undermining effective coping processes and develops these ideaswithin the avoidance route in the proposed model. It also discusses factors enhancing the coping ...
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Scientific Foundations for Research and Practice
M. Grace Baron, Lewis P. Lipsitt, and Matthew S. Goodwin
in Stress and Coping in Autism
This chapter aims to address scientific considerations in the understanding of stress and coping in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), hoping to shed light on, and perhaps ...
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Coping: Where Are You Going?
C. R. Snyder
in Coping: The Psychology of What Works
This final chapter presents an overview of the concept of coping, as well as the arguments and theories presented in this title. It goes on to suggest future research and developments into ...
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Aging and Coping: The Activity Solution
Gail M. Williamson and W. Keith Dooley
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter discusses stressful events of aging, stress and coping in late life, and the Activity Restriction Model of Depressed Affect. It focuses on a specific type of coping–maintaining ...
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Getting Things Done On Time: Conquering Procrastination
Joseph R. Ferrari
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter explores procrastination. It outlines a brief history of the procrastination concept, reviews the prevalence of two major categories of procrastination, followed by a ...
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Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
C. R. Snyder (ed.)
This title provides theory and research that show us how to cope adaptively with the big and small challenges of life. It presents a cutting-edge theory and research about the coping ...
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The Humor Solution
Herbert M. Lefcourt
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter explores the use of humor as a solution to coping with stressful situations. It discusses the impact of stressful experiences, differences in coping strategies in response to ...
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Beyond Coping: Some Paradigms to Consider
Erica Frydenberg
in Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
Chapter 1 presents an introduction to this title. It outlines important foundations and paradigms in the subject of coping, including stress research, master-orientation, socialization, ...
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Adolescent Well-Being: Building Young People’s Resources
Erica Frydenberg and Ramon Lewis
in Beyond Coping: Meeting Goals, Visions, and Challenges
This chapter considers the ways in which a theory of coping can be used as a platform from which to explore adolescent health and well-being. It outlines conceptualizations and models of ...
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Coping and Coherence: A Narrative Perspective on Resilience
Robert A. Neimeyer and Heidi Levitt
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter discusses storytelling and a narrative perspective on resilience. It outlines narrative psychology, narrative process and structure, and the analysis of narratives. It also ...
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Managing Hostile Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions: The LifeSkills Approach
Redford B. Williams and Virginia P. Williams
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter discusses hostility. It reviews the epidemiological evidence documenting the health-damaging effects of hostility and associated psychosocial characteristics; the biobehavioral ...
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Comparing Favorably: A Cognitive Approach to Coping Through Comparison with Other Persons
Thomas Ashby Wills and James M. Sandy
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter considers how people may use social comparison to cope with psychological distress arising from sources such as negative life events, failure experiences, and threats to ...
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Dealing with Secrets
Anita E. Kelly and Jennifer E. Carter
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter discusses secrets, and aims to answer the questions ‘What can be done to alleviate the anguish of secrecy?’ and ‘What are the factorsthat should enter into making a wise ...
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Forgiving
Michael E. McCullough
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter discusses forgiveness and research into the concept of interpersonal forgiving in developmental, social, and clinical psychology. It outlines the nature of forgiveness; the ...
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A Look at the Coping Strategies and Styles of Asian Americans: Similar and Different?
Edward C. Chang
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter explores cultural differences in coping, and focuses on the coping strategies and styles of Asian Americans by applying various models of coping (including Lazarus and ...
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Introduction
Esther Deblinger, Anthony P. Mannarino, Judith A. Cohen, Melissa K. Runyon, and Anne H. Heflin
in Child Sexual Abuse: A Primer for Treating Children, Adolescents, and Their Nonoffending Parents (2 ed.)
The introductory chapter provides a research overview that reviews the definition, incidence and prevalence, dynamics, and short- and long-term impact of sexual abuse on children’s ...
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Coping with the Inevitability of Death: Terror Management and Mismanagement
Eric Strachan, Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, and Sheldon Solomon
in Coping with Stress: Effective People and Processes
This chapter explores methods of coping with the inevitability of death. It discusses Terror Management Theory, the mortality salience hypothesis and anxiety buffer hypothesis, proximal and ...
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