The award-winning research described in this volume emphasizes the role of people as positive copers. Written by leading experts and including new findings, these provocative essays may well set the agenda for research on stress and coping for the next century.

1. Coping: Where Have You Been?, C.R. Snyder and Beth L. Dinoff 2. Reality Negotiation and Coping: The Social Construction of Silk Purses from Sows' Ears, Raymond L.Higgins and Ruth Q. Leibowitz n 3Coping and Ego Depletion, Roy F. Baumeister, Jon E. Faber, and Harry M. Wallace 4. Sharing One's Story: Translating Emotional Experiences into Words as a Coping Tool, Joshua M. Smyth and James W. Pennebaker 5. Focusing on Emotion: An Adaptive Coping Strategy, Annette L. Stanton and Rob Franz 6. Personality, Affectivity, and Coping, David Watson, James P. David, and Jerry Suls 7. Coping Intelligently: Emotional Intelligence and the Coping Process, Peter Salovey, Brian T. Bedell, Jerusha B. Detweiler, and John D. Mayer 8. Learned Optimism in Children, Andrew Shatte, Karen Reivich, Jane E. Gillham, and Martin E. P. Seligman 9. Optimism, Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier 10. Hoping, C. R. Snyder, Jen Cheavens, and Scott T. Michael 11. Mastery-Oriented Thinking, Carol S. Dweck and Lisa A. Sorich 12. Coping with Catastrophes and Catastrophizing, Christopher Peterson and Christina H. Moon 13. Finding Benefits in Adversity, Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck 14. Rebuilding Shattered Assumptions After Traumatic Life Events: Coping Processes and Outcomes, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman 15. Coping: Where Are You Going?, C. R. Snyder

C. R. SnyderProfessor of Psychology and Director of the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence

"A virtual `who's who' and `what's what' in coping research, this book provides a cutting-edge overview of the field of coping and its relation to personality and emotion. This is not a stale, dry presentation of where the field has been, but a forward-looking collection of papers on where the field is going." --Drew Westen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |k No