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The Social Context of Coping pp 239–260Cite as

Translating Coping Theory into an Intervention

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During the 1980s, the Berkeley Stress and Coping Project conducted a number of studies about the coping process based on a cognitive theory of stress and coping (Lazarus, 1966; Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). These studies furthered understanding of the coping process, including its multidimensionality, the contextual person and environmental factors that influence it, and its relationship to emotions, psychological wellbeing, and physical health (e.g., Folkman & Lazarus, 1980, 1985, 1986; Folkman, Lazarus, Dunkel-Schetter, DeLongis, & Gruen, 1986).

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  1. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA

    Susan Folkman, Margaret Chesney, Leon McKusick & Thomas J. Coates

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 33124, USA

    Gail Ironson

  3. Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, California, 94117-1030, USA

    David S. Johnson

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Folkman, S., Chesney, M., McKusick, L., Ironson, G., Johnson, D.S., Coates, T.J. (1991). Translating Coping Theory into an Intervention. In: Eckenrode, J. (eds) The Social Context of Coping. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3740-7_11

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