EAN: 9780306454707

COPING WITH CHRONIC STRESS GEBUNDEN

Much of what we know about the subject of coping is based on human behavior and cognition
during times of crisis and transition. Yet the alarms and m~or upheavals of life comprise only
a portion of those experiences that call for adaptive efforts. There remains a vast array of
life situations and conditions that pose continuing hardship and threat and do not promise
resolution. These chronic stressors issue in part from persistently difficult life
circumstances  roles  and burdens  and in part from the conversion of traumatic events into
persisting adjustment challenges. Indeed  there is growing recognition of the fact that many
traumatic experiences leave a long-lasting emotional residue. Whether or not coping with
chronic problems differs in form  emphasis  or func tion from the ways people handle acute life
events and transitions is one of the central issues taken up in these pages. This volume
explores the varied circumstances and experiences that give rise to chronic stress as well as
the ways in which individuals adapt to and accommodate them. It addresses a number of
substantive and methodological questions that have been largely overlooked or sidelined in
previous inquiries on the stress and coping process.

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