Reviews long and short forms of self-report inventory designed to assess utilization of coping strategies as being either stable across differing problem situations or situation-specific. Describes inventory as carefully constructed with sufficient statistical properties. Suggests need for criterion-related validity examination. (CRR)

Considers some of the issues and concerns that confront academic counseling psychologists during the early professional years (6-10 years post-Ph.D). Tenure, competency, role overload/burnout, and mobility issues are also briefly discussed. Presents strategies or coping techniques for dealing with these issues and concerns where appropriate.…

Sixty cancer chemotherapy patients were randomly assigned to one of four treatments: relaxation training with guided relaxation imagery (RT), general coping preparation (PREP), both RT and PREP, or routine clinic treatment only. Found that PREP intervention increased patients' knowledge of disease and treatment, reduced anticipatory side effects,…

Explored critical events during adolescence and coping processes as dependent on the relationship with peers and on the type of peer groups teenagers join. Results with Italian adolescents (n=75) indicated the nature of the group adolescents joined was of minor importance, but the relationship established with peers was crucial. (Author/ABL)

Studied stress, strain, depression, and coping resources in nuns and clergywomen (n=254). Found nuns had less stress and strain, less depression, and better coping resources than female clergywomen. Female Reform rabbis experienced most stress, strain, and possible depression, with lowest coping resources. (Author/ABL)

Examined how women cope with physical and emotional abuse while remaining with their abusive partners. Of 130 women who had experienced conflict or violence in close heterosexual relationship, 44 were still involved in abusive relationship. Findings suggest that women who stay with abusive partners employ cognitive strategies that help them…

Familiarizes counselors with role of death fear as primary source of anxiety for all individuals. Attempts to define death anxiety and demonstrate how defense mechanisms used to deny it can affect development in young adulthood. Provides three examples of maladaptive modes of behavior resulting from ineffective defense mechanisms (addiction,…

Using middle school students (N=1,454), examines the factor structure of the Coping Resources Inventory Scale for Educational Enhancement (CRISEE), an instrument designed to measure coping resources in youth. Results provide evidence that the CRISEE may be a reliable measure of dimensionally distinct types of coping resources. (Author/MKA)

Naturalistic inquiry and content analysis were used to examine the lives of successful adult learners. When confronted with failure, these learners engaged in problem solving, visioning, objectifying, emotional, reflecting, partnering, and active learning behaviors that motivated them toward further achievement. (SK)

Examines coping and emotional distress in children (N=50) assisting an elderly mother hospitalized for depression. The hypothesis that maternal object-relations would be related to more adaptive coping and less emotional distress received partial support, whereas the idea that mothers' history of depression would be associated with the child's…

Explores some key existential or ontological concepts to show their applicability to the complex area of disaster impact as it relates to health and social welfare practice. Draws on existentialist philosophy, particularly that of John Paul Sartre, and introduces some key ontological concepts to show how they specifically apply to the experience…

Synthesizes past studies of illness, stress, coping, and social support and offers a model of communicative support, based on problematic integration theory, that emphasizes two major dimensions of meaning in the breast cancer experience. Suggests that supportive messages are designed to help the breast cancer patient manage both perceptions of…

The concept of grief may have value as a way to understand individual reactions to change. Coping strategies for dealing with change should include grief management processes such as attending to endings, managing the transition between old and new practices, and launching a new beginning. (SK)

Tests Coleman's (1995) hypotheses that the strategies adolescents use to cope with cultural diversity will be organized in a sequential manner and that adolescents will use different strategies depending on the situation. To test these hypotheses, 398 adolescents rated the likelihood of using 6 strategies for coping with cultural diversity. Makes…

This study examined associations between adolescents' self-reports and parents' reports of adolescents' exposure to family stress, coping, and symptoms of anxiety/depression and aggression in a sample of 78 adolescent offspring of depressed parents. Significant cross-informant correlations were found between adolescents' reports of family stress,…