Stress, coping, and development : an integrative perspective

Summary: "Updated throughout with new concepts, tools, and data, the second edition offers two new chapters addressing physiology and physical health. Other new features include expanded coverage of sociocultural and religious aspects of coping, cutting-edge perspectives on emotion regulation and stress-related growth, and expanded coverage of childhood, young adulthood, and mid-life." "Bringing the field fully up to date, this work belongs on the shelves of researchers and practitioners in developmental, personality/social, health, and clinical psychology, as well as others interested in lifespan development, stress and coping, and health."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 1572308400
ISBN: 9781572308404
Physical Description: xvi, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York : Guilford Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-417) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction and purpose of the book -- Why is stress important? -- Definitions of stress -- The physiology of stress -- Design and measurement issues in stress research -- 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.