Presents a role perception model of goal setting content and leader initiating structure to examine their effectiveness as strategies to reduce role stress and to increase employee satisfaction. Results indicated that both goal setting content and leader initiating structure are related to employee satisfaction. (Author)

The article defines and describes coping and stress, their relationship to learning, and how they are assessed for educational planning for preschool handicapped children. The Coping Inventory, an observation assessment instrument, is used to show how the teaching and learning of coping behavior can be part of each child's educational plan.…

Tested the action of the dissonance model on immigrants who were obliged to prepare for a new occupation. Four coping strategies were found combining high vs. low level of self-image and vocational involvement with positive vs. negative attitudes toward work and authority figures at work. (Author)

Subjects reported significantly lower levels of anxiety and fear and significantly higher levels of assertiveness at posttreatment. The potential clinical significance of the result was reinforced by evidence of significantly lower hospitalization rates among program participants one year after training. (Author)

The goals of developmental group counseling are closely aligned to life-coping skills. They include helping members to do the following: (1) know themselves; (2) develop self-acceptance; (3) master developmental tasks; (4) develop self-direction, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities; and (5) develop sensitivity to the needs of others.…

Choice Awareness is a cognitive-affective-behavioral system designed to enable people to make effective choices. Choice Awareness can serve in a group process that enables individuals to reach beyond their present patterns of behaviors and implement new choices. (Author)

Results suggest that individuals enrolled in a death education seminar can acquire and/or enhance a variety of coping capacities in regard to self and others. Exposure to a full array of experiential and didactic components appears to be necessary. (Author)

This self-management program enables teachers and students to use self-statements to handle stress, diffuse anger, and cope with feeling overwhelmed. (JM)

Four stages of teacher burnout (survival, transition, creativity, and burnout) are considered, and a strategy of personal growth for teachers of severely handicapped, autistic children is suggested. (CL)

Based on a longitudinal survey of first parity, mostly Black mothers in New York City, examines the coping strategies of unmarried mothers. Analyzes the expansion of role responsibilities and support systems utilized and discusses the relationship between support systems and subsequent fertility. Presents three case studies. (Author/GC)

The authors suggest that the best way to deal effectively with stress is better management of one's life style. Some of the coping strategies include developing good eating and exercise habits, learning relaxation techniques, building an emotional support system, and anticipating and managing stressful life events. (SK)

Longitudinal data show that both personal and marital stresses increase, especially among new mothers, after the first baby is born. Feelings of personal well being among new parents are higher soon after the baby is born than later. (Author)

Results show that following this particular stressor event, families are in crisis and adapt by making structural changes. Results raise the question of whether postinjury family dysfunction is due to reliance on previous coping strategies. (BEF)

Evidence indicates that kind of intensive in-home intervention described produces positive changes likely to be maintained in families in which the mother has some self-esteem, a satisfactory relationship with her own mother or a desire for a better relationship, and an adequate social support system. (Author/BEF)

One strategy for helping clients develop their own self-development systems is educational intervention. The counselor assumes a teacher role to teach clients specific skills to better cope with problems of living. Presents a five-step counseling and self-help method to be learned by clients. (Author)