Stress and Mental Health: Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the Future

Introduction: Introduction and Overview; W.R. Avision, I.H. Gotlib. Stressful Life Events: Unravelling Complexity; D.E. McLean, B.G. Link. Measuring Life Stress and Assessing its Impact on Mental Health; S.M. Monroe, J.R. McQuaid. Chronic Strains: Sampling the Stress Universe; B. Wheaton. The Daily Grind; E.G. Menaghan. Psychosocial Resources and Mediators: General and Specific Perceptions of Social Support; I.G. Sarason, et al. Psychosocial Resources and the Stress Process; R.J. Turner, P. Roszell. Vulnerability to Stress: Life Stressors and Mental Health; C.J. Holahan, R.H. Moos. The Disaggregation of Vulnerability to Depression as a Function of the Determinants of Onset and Recurrence; R.G. Kessler, W.J. Magee. The Dependent Variable in Stress Research: The Advantages of Indexes over Diagnoses in Scientific Assessment; J. Mirowsky. Psychophysiological and Behavioral Measurement of Stress; N. Lester, et al. Conclusion: Future Prospects for Stress Research; W.R. Avison, I.H. Gotlib. Index.