Coping with negative life events: clinical and social psychological perspectives

Part I. Introductory theoretical viewpoint

The effects of theoretical perspective on the analysis of coping with negative life events / C.R. Snyder, Carol E. Ford, Robert N. Harris

Part II. Effort experditure perspectives

Help-seeking as a coping mechanism / Thomas Ashby Wills

Coping difficulty, energy mobilization, and appraisals of a stressor : indroduction of a theory and a comparison of perspectives / Rex A. Wright

Effort expenditure following failure / Carol E. Ford and Jack W. Brehm

Depression, self-focused attention, and self-regulatory perseveration / Tom A. Pyszczynski and Jeff Greenbert

Part III. Control/mastery perspectives

Coping with traumatic events : the role of denial in light of people's assumptive worlds / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Christine Timko

Daily life events and mood / John M. Neale [and others]

Coping after a relationship ends / Sharon S. Brehm

Part IV. Social comparison perspectives

Social comparison and illusions of invulnerability to negative life events / Linda Perloff

Downward comparison as a coping mechanism / Thomas Ashly Wills

Part V. Image maintenance perspectives

Threats to identity : self-identification and social stress / Barry R. Schlenker

Coping with the prospect of disapproval : strategies and sequelae / Ann H. Baumgardner and Robert M. Arkin

The role of similarity/difference information in excuse-making / C.R. Snyder and Robert N. Harris

Part VI. Overview perspective / Stress and coping / B. Kent Houston.