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Situations and Processes of Coping

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Despite many admirable and theoretically provocative attempts to understand the role of “coping” in the stress process and a myriad of studies to understand the relationship of particular sorts of coping strategies to outcomes in the stress process, several issues about coping and the coping process remain relatively unexplored. This chapter examines several such issues. For some issues, we provide new data. For others, we provide additional ideas about how data may be gathered.

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  1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853-4401, USA

    Elaine Wethington

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    Ronald C. Kessler

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  1. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

    John Eckenrode

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Wethington, E., Kessler, R.C. (1991). Situations and Processes of Coping. In: Eckenrode, J. (eds) The Social Context of Coping. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3740-7_2

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