Suchergebnisse

I. Introductory Theoretical Viewpoint -- 1: The Effects of Theoretical Perspective on the Analysis of Coping with Negative Life Events -- II. Effort Expenditure Perspectives -- 2: Help-Seeking as a Coping Mechanism -- 3: Coping Difficulty, Energy Mobilization, and Appraisals of a Stressor: Introduction of a Theory and a Comparison of Perspectives -- 4: Effort Expenditure Following Failure -- 5: Depression, Self-Focused Attention, and Self-Regulatory Perseveration -- III. Control/Mastery Perspectives -- 6: Coping with Traumatic Events: The Role of Denial in Light of People's Assumptive Worlds -- 7: Daily Life Events and Mood -- 8: Coping After A Relationship Ends -- IV. Social Comparison Perspectives -- 9: Social Comparison and Illusions of Invulnerability to Negative Life Events -- 10: Downward Comparison as a Coping Mechanism -- V. Image Maintenance Perspectives -- 11: Threats to Identity: Self-Identification and Social Stress -- 12: Coping With the Prospect of Disapproval: Strategies and Sequelae -- 13: The Role of Similarity/Difference Information in Excuse-Making -- VI. Overview Perspective -- 14: Stress and Coping -- Author Index.

I: A Case for Uniqueness -- 1 Literary Precedents for Uniqueness -- II: Need for Uniqueness: Theory and Research -- 2 Do Birds of a Feather Always Flock Together? -- 3 Theory of Uniqueness -- 4 Corollaries of Uniqueness Theory: The Nature of the Comparison Other Persons -- 5 Individual Differences in Need for Uniqueness -- III: Uniqueness Attributes 103 -- 6 Commodities as Uniqueness Attributes -- 7 Names as Uniqueness Attributes -- 8 Attitudes and Beliefs as Uniqueness Attributes -- 9 Performance as Uniqueness-Motivated Behavior -- IV: Uniqueness Seeking in Perspective -- 10 Deindividuation: Loss of Uniqueness -- 11 Individuation: The Pursuit of Difference.