Stress and Mental Health

Providing fresh insights into the complex relationship between stress and mental health, internationally recognized contributors identifie emerging conceptual issues, highlight promising avenues for further study, and detail novel methodological techniques for addressing contemporary empirical problems. Specific coverage includes stressful life events, chronic strains, psychosocial resources and mediators, vulnerability to stress, and mental health outcomes-thus providing researchers with a tool to take stock of the past and future of this field.

Contenu

1. Introduction and Overview.- 2. Unraveling Complexity: Strategies to Refine Concepts, Measures, and Research Designs in the Study of Life Events and Mental Health.- 3. Measuring Life Stress and Assessing Its Impact on Mental Health.- 4. Sampling the Stress Universe.- 5. The Daily Grind: Work Stressors, Family Patterns, and Intergenerational Outcomes.- 6. General and Specific Perceptions of Social Support.- 7. Psychosocial Resources and the Stress Process.- 8. Life Stressors and Mental Health: Advances in Conceptualizing Stress Resistance.- 9. The Disaggregation of Vulnerability to Depression as a Function of the Determinants of Onset and Recurrence.- 10. The Advantages of Indexes over Diagnoses in Scientific Assessment.- 11. Psychophysiological and Behavioral Measurement of Stress: Applications to Mental Health.- 12. Future Prospects for Stress Research.