GENERAL CONCEPTUAL ISSUES. Personality and Disease: Overview, Review, and Preview (H. Friedman). Lessons from History: How to Find the Person in Health Psychology (S. Kobasa). Models of Linkages Between Personality and Disease (J. Suls & J. Rittenhouse). All Other Things Are Not Equal: An Ecological Approach to Personality and Disease (T. Revenson). STRESS, EMOTION, AND HEALTH. Stress, Coping, and Illness (R. Lazarus). Issues and Interventions in Stress Mastery (S. Maddi). Personality and Health: Testing the Sense of Coherence Model (A. Antonovsky). Disease--Prone Personality or Distress--Prone Personality? The Role of Neuroticism in Coronary Heart Disease (S. Stone & P. Costa). PERSONALITY, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND HOMEOSTASIS. On Attempting to Articulate the Biopsychosocial Model: Psychological--Psychophysiological Homeostasis (L. Temoshok). Individual Differences and Health: Gender, Coping, and Stress (J. Ratliff--Crain & A. Baum). Personality and Social Factors in Cancer Outcome (S. Levy & L. Heiden). CONCLUSION. Where Is the Disease--Prone Personality? Conclusion and Future Directions (H. Friedman). Author Index. Subject Index.