2. Why Is Stress Important?

3. Definitions of Stress

4. The Physiology of Stress

5. Design and Measurement Issues in Stress Research

6. Why is Coping Important?

7. Theoretical Approaches to Coping

8. Measurement of Coping Strategies

9. Statistical Issues in Coping Research

10. Coping and Mental Health

11. Coping and Physical Health

12. Coping with Traumatic Stress

13. Sociocultural Aspects of Coping

14. Developmental Studies of Coping

15. Stress-Related Growth and Transformational Coping

16. Self-Regulation, Self-Development, and Wisdom