Stress and Anxiety -- Coping and Resilience

We present this collection of peer-reviewed papers covering a
contemporary exploration of old and new concepts in the area of
stress, anxiety, and coping. The papers include a consideration
of the age-old questions concerning maths and test anxiety
and the factors which predict or mediate these to a theoretical
discussion of what is stress and how do we measure it.
Several papers focus on stress and coping in applied settings,
such as among patients with chronic disease, panic disorder,
and also in those who play sport. Further papers are devoted
to stress and coping in educational and academic settings and
examine factors which contribute to students' learning as well
as those which influence teachers' occupational stress. The
recent emphasis by positive psychologists on resilience as well
as coping has also featured here with chapters looking at their
contributions to psychological health. However, the question
is posed as to whether resilience and coping are cut from the
same cloth.