Stress and Mental Health

1. Introduction and Overview.- 2. Unraveling Complexity: Strategies to Refine Concepts, Measures, and Research Designs in the Study of Life Events and Mental Health.- 3. Measuring Life Stress and Assessing Its Impact on Mental Health.- 4. Sampling the Stress Universe.- 5. The Daily Grind: Work Stressors, Family Patterns, and Intergenerational Outcomes.- 6. General and Specific Perceptions of Social Support.- 7. Psychosocial Resources and the Stress Process.- 8. Life Stressors and Mental Health: Advances in Conceptualizing Stress Resistance.- 9. The Disaggregation of Vulnerability to Depression as a Function of the Determinants of Onset and Recurrence.- 10. The Advantages of Indexes over Diagnoses in Scientific Assessment.- 11. Psychophysiological and Behavioral Measurement of Stress: Applications to Mental Health.- 12. Future Prospects for Stress Research.