Handbook of the psychology of coping : new research / Bernando Molinelli and Valentino Grimaldo, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COPING: NEW RESEARCH; HANDBOOK OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COPING: NEW RESEARCH; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: BRINGING PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION IN FROM THE COLD; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THE PHENOMENON AND THREAT; COPING AND ADAPTATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE; QUESTIONS AND ISSUES; THE INTERTWINED HISTORIES OF STRESS AND COPING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; CLIMATE CHANGE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSOR; THE NATURE AND STATUS OF CURRENT COPING APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CHANGE.

A Dual Pathway ModelA Socio-Cognitive Model; A Cognitive Theory of Stress Model; A Coping with Global Environmental Problems Scale; General Observations on Recent Work; FURTHER APPROACHES AND CONSIDERATIONS; Protection Motivation and Defense; Adaptation and Mitigation from a Coping Perspective; Coping, Adaptation and Impacts; Direct and Indirect Exposure and Experience; 'Adapting' and Integrating Stress and Coping and Environmental Stress Approaches to Climate Change; INITIAL FINDINGS FROM AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH WITH A STRONG FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION AND IMPACTS.

CONCLUSIONREFERENCES; Chapter 2: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING: A FRAMEWORK FOR HOW INDIVIDUALS COPE WITH BEREAVEMENT AND OTHER EXISTENTIAL STRESSORS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MEANING-MAKING: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?; The Meaning-Making Model; Global Meaning; Situational Meaning; Meaning-Making as a Coping Process; Alternative Models of Meaning-Making; World Assumptions Theory; THE MEASUREMENT OF MEANING-MAKING: THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE; MEANING-MAKING AND BEREAVEMENT; Meaning-Making and the Dual Process Model; Meaning-Making and the Cognitive-Behavioral Conceptualization of Grief.

Toward an Integrated Model of Meaning-Making and GriefFINDING MEANING IN SPECIFIC STRESSFUL EVENTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: PARENTAL COPING, EMOTIONAL RESOURCES AND CHILDREN'S ADJUSTMENT: THEORY, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, AND INTERVENTIONAL IMPLICATIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PARENTAL EMOTIONAL RESOURCES; A) Attachment Styles; B) Parental Affect; PARENTAL COPING RESOURCES; A) Sense of Coherence; B) Parental Coping Strategies; OFFSPRINGS' DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTABILITY TO ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; CONCLUSION; FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND INTERVENTIONAL IMPLICATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES.

Chapter 4: ECONOMIC COPING AND HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS' PERCEPTION OF HEALTHABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; Conceptualizing Financial Coping; A Brief Literature Review on Financial Coping; The Present Study; Conceptual Framework of Our Model; METHODS; Sample; Assessment Tool; Study Design; Analytic Strategy; RESULTS; Descriptive Findings; Results of the Testing of Our Model; Intensity of Financial Coping in Relation to Health in Each Income Group; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: COPING IN A RELATIONAL CONTEXT: THE CASE OF DYADIC COPING; ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION.

Coping has been defined as constantly changing cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that exceed the resources of the person. In this book, the authors present new research on the psychology of coping. Topics discussed include coping with climate change; coping with bereavement and other existential stressors; parental coping, emotional resources and children's adjustment; economic coping and heads of households' perception of health; coping in a relational context; how to cope with work-family conflicts in an international career context; and sequence of coping behaviours in adolescents.

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