Contents Foreword, Lazarus Preface 1. Introduction and Purpose of the Book 2. Conceptual Issues in Stress Research 3. Definitions of Stress 4. Design and Measurement Issues in Stress Research 5. Conceptual Issues in Coping Research 6. Theoretical Approaches to Coping 7. Measurement of Coping Strategies 8. Statistical Issues in Coping Research 9. Coping and Health 10. Coping with Traumatic Stress 11. Culture, Stress, and Coping 12. Developmental Studies of Coping 13. Transformational Coping 14. Toward a New Theory of Adaptation