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Article: Stress, Coping, and Relationships in Adolescence
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- Merrill - Palmer Quarterly
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- January 1, 1998
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Stress, Coping, and Relationships in Adolescence. Inge SeiffgeKrenke. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995. Pp. ix + 289. $59.95 cloth.
The field of psychology, particularly the special disciplines of social and clinical psychology, has long been concerned with how people are affected by the stressors in their lives, and how coping can negate, alleviate, or moderate the relation between stress and mental or physical health. Questions of importance have included (a) what types of events are stressful, (b) how do individuals cope with major (nonnormative) or everyday (normative) stressful events, (c) what individual characteristics influence how people cope, (d) are relationships a coping resource, and ...