Data from 72 adults in British university preparation (access) courses showed extreme levels of trait anxiety associated with lower final examination performance. Certain study and coping methods were correlated with final exam scores. Test anxiety was significantly correlated with trait anxiety but not with exam performance. (SK)

Women reporting severe premenstrual symptoms were allocated nonrandomly to cognitive-behavioral coping skills treatment (n=13), nonspecific treatment (n=12), or waiting-list group (n=12). Compared with controls, coping skills group reported significant reductions in premenstrual symptomatology and irrational thinking at posttreatment and 9-month…

Integrated six dimensions of chronic low back pain (pain intensity, functional disability, attitudes toward pain, pain coping strategies, depression, illness behavior) to provide multidimensional patient profile. Data from 100 patients revealed presence of three distinct patient groups: patients who were in control, patients who were depressed and…

Presents evidence for a model of risk factors, including depression, hopelessness, lack of social support, and negative self-evaluations, that contribute to suicidal ideation among normative and clinically depressed adolescents. (HTH)

Educators possess a wealth of understanding and experience that can help colleagues deal with heavy work pressures more effectively within the framework of a whole school policy for stress management. The coping strategies discussed embrace a wide range of skills, knowledge, techniques, relationships, thoughts, and activities that may be…

Internal factors affecting how people perceive and react to relocation include beliefs about events, and emotions such as anger and loss, effects of early separation experiences, and self-esteem. Counseling can help individuals and families facing the psychological discomfort of this life crisis. (SK)

Discusses Project Assist, a project designed to study efficacy of time-limited psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies for experienced and recent caregivers. Claims Project Assist offers psychotherapy that can assist caregivers in separating their own emotions, identity, and well-being from those of care receiver, a process which appears…

Presents suggestions to help parents cope with their own and their children's anger, noting anger in itself is not bad. The article describes where anger originates and explains how to use it in constructive ways to solve problems in their early stages. (SM)

Investigated relation of personality factor of hardiness to resolution of grief. In anonymous sample of 70 widows, hardiness was significant predictor of grief resolution in addition to general mental health, time since death, and widow's age. Whether death was expected did not relate to course of resolution. (Author/NB)

A personal perspective is given on attitudes and behavior toward children with deafness and the lack of understanding it is felt to represent. (DB)

Notes that Persian Gulf War focused public attention on the problems military families face in coping with military-induced family separation. Highlights some of the unique stressors faced by active-duty, national guard, and reserve military families. Presents practical guidelines to assist social workers in designing interventions to help these…

It is argued that the relative scoring method used to score the Ways of Coping Checklist introduces an artifact that confounds multivariate analyses and ignores the individual's general reactivity to the problem. Multivariate analysis is shown to suggest an intricate structural relationship between components of coping and depression. (SLD)

Describes four modes of positive survival with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and analyzes them as they appear in support groups for people with AIDS. Sees beneficent, artistic-spiritual, heroic, and rational-instrumental survival modes as compromise solutions to fears of life and death described by Rank. Calls analysis nonpejorative…

Describes a teacher's experiences reading aloud with two preschoolers in a homeless shelter and how the interaction increased the children's print awareness and ameliorated the stress of being in the shelter. (HTH)

Examined research involving over 3,000 adolescents from various cultures to determine problems typical of this developmental phase and ways of coping with normative demands. Found that adolescents' response to problems stemming from different developmental fields such as parents, peers, school, or future involved three main modes of coping: Active…