PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Stress, Coping and Health - Brenda L Lyon A Conceptual Overview PART TWO: RESPONSE ORIENTED STRESS Theories of Stress and Relationship to Health - Virginia Hill Rice Stress, Immunity and Health Outcomes - Linda Witek-Janusek and Herbert L Mathews Physiological Measurements of the Stress Response - Jill M White and Carol Mattson Porth PART THREE: STIMULUS ORIENTED STRESS Major Life Stressors and Health Outcomes - Joan Stehl Werner and Marlene Hanson Frost Micro-Stressors and Health Outcomes - Carol L Macnee and Susan McCabe Stress, Psychosomatic Illness and Health - Frances B Wimbush and Margot L Nelson PART FOUR: INTERACTIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL MODELS Salutogenesis - Martha E Horsbough 'Origins of Health' and Sense of Coherence Evolution of a Model of Stress, Coping and Discrete Emotions - Richard S Lazarus Coping with Stress - Jane H Backer et al Programs of Nursing Research Stress, Coping and Health in Children - Nancy Ryan-Wenger, Christine A Wynd and Vicki W Sharrer Stress, Coping and Family Health - Rosanna DeMarco et al PART FIVE: STRESS, COPING AND HEALTH: MEDIATING FACTORS Attitudes, Beliefs, Values and Culture as Mediators of Stress - Jill A Cohen and Lorraine M Welch Social Support - Patricia Underwood The Promise and the Reality Type A Behavior and Cardiovascular Health - Sue A Thomas and Erika Friedman The Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Coping Model - Nancy R Reynolds and Angelo A Alonzo A Midrange Theory Hardiness - Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and Judith A Cohen A Model of Commitment, Challenge and Control Hope and Hopelessness - Edith D Hunt Raleigh Locus of Control, Perceived Control, and Learned Helplessness - JoAnn B Ruiz-Bueno Self-Regulation - Nancy R Reynolds and Angelo A Alonzo The Common Sense Model of Illness Representation Stress, Self-Efficacy and Health - Debra Siela and Ann W Wieseke Stress, Uncertainty and Health - Cecilia R Barron PART SIX: FUTURE DIRECTIONS Stress, Coping, Health and Nursing - Brenda L Lyon and Virginia Hill Rice The Future