Coping The Psychology of What Works

by Snyder, C. R.

• ISBN13: 9780195119343
• ISBN10: 0195119347
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Most people take the process of coping for granted as they go about their daily activities. In many ways, coping is like breathing, an automatic process requiring no apparent effort. However, when people face truly threatening events--what psychologists call stressors--they become acutely aware of the coping process and respond by consciously applying their day-to-day coping skills. Coping is a fundamental psychological process, and people's skills are commensurately sophisticated. This volume builds on people's strengths and emphasizes their role as positive copers. It features techniques for preventing psychological problems and breaks from the traditional research approach, which is modeled on medicine and focuses on pathology and treatment. Collecting both award-winning research and new findings, this book may well set the agenda for research on stress and coping for the next century. These provocative and readable essays explore a variety of topics, including reality negotiation, confessing through writing, emotional intelligence, optimism, hope, mastery-oriented thinking, and more. Unlike typical self-help books available at any newsstand, this volume features the work of some of the most eminent researchers in the field. Yet like those books it is written for the general reader, as well as for the specialist, and includes numerous practical suggestions and techniques. It will prove an invaluable tool for a wide range of readers.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xv
1. Coping: Where Have You Been?	3	(17)
C. R. Snyder
Beth L. Dinoff
2. Reality Negotiation and Coping: The Social Construction of Adaptive Outcomes	20	(30)
Raymond L. Higgins
Ruth Q. Leibowitz
3. Coping and Ego Depletion: Recovery after the Coping Process	50	(20)
Roy F. Baumeister
Jon E. Faber
Harry M. Wallace
4. Sharing One's Story: Translating Emotional Experiences into Words as a Coping Tool	70	(20)
Joshua M. Smyth
James W. Pennebaker
5. Focusing on Emotion: An Adaptive Coping Strategy?	90	(29)
Annette L. Stanton
Robert Franz
6. Personality, Affectivity, and Coping	119	(22)
David Watson
James P. David
Jerry Suls
7. Coping Intelligently: Emotional Intelligence and the Coping Process	141	(24)
Peter Salovey
Brian T. Bedell
Jerusha B. Detweiler
John D. Mayer
8. Learned Optimism in Children	165	(17)
Andrew J. Shatte
Karen Reivich
Jane E. Gillham
Martin E. P. Seligman
9. Optimism	182	(23)
Charles S. Carver
Michael F. Scheier
10. Hoping	205	(27)
C. R. Snyder
Jen Cheavens
Scott T. Michael
11. Mastery-Oriented Thinking	232	(20)
Carol S. Dweck
Lisa A. Sorich
12. Coping with Catastrophes and Catastrophizing	252	(27)
Christopher Peterson
Christina H. Moon
13. Finding Benefits in Adversity	279	(26)
Howard Tennen
Glenn Affleck
14. Rebuilding Shattered Assumptions after Traumatic Life Events: Coping Processes and Outcomes	305	(19)
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman
15. Coping: Where Are You Going?	324	(11)
C. R. Snyder
Index	335