Includes bibliographical references and index.

Coping: where have you been? / C.R. Snyder and Beth L. Dinoff -- Reality negotiation and coping: the social construction of adaptive outcomes / Raymond L. Higgins and Ruth Q. Leibowitz -- Coping and ego depletion: recovery after the coping process / Roy F. Baumeister, Jon E. Faber, and Harry M. Wallace -- Sharing one's story: translating emotional experiences into words as a coping tool / Joshua M. Smyth and James W. Pennebaker -- Focusing on emotion: an adaptive coping strategy? / Annette L. Stanton and Robert Franz -- Personality, affectivity, and coping / David Watson, James P. David, and Jerry Suls -- Coping intelligently: emotional intelligence and the coping process / Peter Salovey ... [et al.] -- Learned optimism in children / Andrew J. Shatté ... [et al.] -- Optimism / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier -- Hoping / C.R. Snyder, Jen Cheavens, and Scott T. Michael -- Mastery-oriented thinking / Carol S. Dweck and Lisa A. Sorich -- Coping with catastrophes and catastrophizing / Christopher Peterson and Christina H. Moon -- Finding benefits in adversity / Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck -- Rebuilding shattered assumptions after traumatic life events: coping processes and outcomes / Ronnie Janoff-Bulman -- Coping: where are you going? / C.R. Snyder.