Description: I: Introduction.- 1. Conceptual and Measurement Issues in the Study of Coping with Chronic Stress.- II: Theory and Perspectives.- 2. The Nature of Chronic Stress.- 3. Theories of Coping with Chronic Stress: Illustrations from the Health Psychology and Aging Literatures.- 4. Effortful and Involuntary Responses to Stress: Implications for Coping with Chronic Stress.- III: The Social Context of Coping with Chronic Stress.- 5. Social-Environmental Influences on the Chronic Stress Process.- 6. Coping with Chronic Stress: An Interpersonal Perspective.- 7. Families Accommodating to Chronic Stress: Unintended and Unnoticed Processes.- 8. Reciprocity in the Expression of Emotional Support among Later-Life Couples with Stroke.- IV: Considerations of Efficacy in Coping with Chronic Stress.- 9. Changes in Coping with Chronic Stress: The Role of Caregivers' Appraisals of Coping Efficacy.- 10. The Role of Two Kinds of Efficacy Beliefs in Maintaining the Well-Being of Chronically Stressed Older Adults.- V: Illustrations of Coping with Pervasive Life Difficulties.- 11. Positive Meaningful Events and Coping in the Context of HIV/AIDS.- 12. A Framework for Understanding the Chronic Stress of Holocaust Survivors.- 13. Coping with Chronic Work Stress.

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