- Oxford Library Of Psychology
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- Dedication
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Stress, Health, and Coping: An Overview
- Stress and Coping across the Lifespan
- Perceived Control and the Development of Coping
- Gender, Stress, and Coping
- Affiliation and Stress
- Couples Coping with Chronic Illness
- Conservation of Resources Theory: Its Implication for Stress, Health, and Resilience
- Coping with Bereavement
- Resilience: The Meanings, Methods, and Measures of a Fundamental Characteristic of Human Adaptation
- Positive Emotions and Coping: Examining Dual-Process Models of Resilience
- Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences
- Meaning, Coping, and Health and Well-Being
- Benefit-Finding and Sense-Making in Chronic Illness
- Religion and Coping: The Current State of Knowledge
- Coping, Spirituality, and Health in HIV
- Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals and Pathways to Quality of Life
- Future-Oriented Thinking, Proactive Coping, and the Management of Potential Threats to Health and Well-Being
- Regulating Emotions during Stressful Experiences: The Adaptive Utility of Coping through Emotional Approach
- The Dynamics of Stress, Coping, and Health: Assessing Stress and Coping Processes in Near Real Time
- Coping Interventions and the Regulation of Positive Affect
- Stress, Coping, and Health in HIV/AIDS
- Stress, Health, and Coping: Synthesis, Commentary, and Future Directions
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Abstract and Keywords
Affiliation with others is a basic human coping response for managing a broad array of stressful circumstances. Affiliating with others is both psychologically and biologically comforting, and biologically may depend upon oxytocin and brain opioid pathways. The origins of affiliative responses to stress include early life experiences, genetic factors, and epigenetic processes that interact with the availability of supportive others during times of stress. The beneficial consequences of affiliation for mental and physical health are strong and robust. Future research will continue to clarify the underlying biopsychosocial pathways that explicate why this is the case.
Keywords: affiliation, coping, fight-or-flight, social support, stress, tend-and-befriend
Shelley E. Taylor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Oxford Library Of Psychology
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Stress, Health, and Coping: An Overview
- Stress and Coping across the Lifespan
- Perceived Control and the Development of Coping
- Gender, Stress, and Coping
- Affiliation and Stress
- Couples Coping with Chronic Illness
- Conservation of Resources Theory: Its Implication for Stress, Health, and Resilience
- Coping with Bereavement
- Resilience: The Meanings, Methods, and Measures of a Fundamental Characteristic of Human Adaptation
- Positive Emotions and Coping: Examining Dual-Process Models of Resilience
- Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences
- Meaning, Coping, and Health and Well-Being
- Benefit-Finding and Sense-Making in Chronic Illness
- Religion and Coping: The Current State of Knowledge
- Coping, Spirituality, and Health in HIV
- Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals and Pathways to Quality of Life
- Future-Oriented Thinking, Proactive Coping, and the Management of Potential Threats to Health and Well-Being
- Regulating Emotions during Stressful Experiences: The Adaptive Utility of Coping through Emotional Approach
- The Dynamics of Stress, Coping, and Health: Assessing Stress and Coping Processes in Near Real Time
- Coping Interventions and the Regulation of Positive Affect
- Stress, Coping, and Health in HIV/AIDS
- Stress, Health, and Coping: Synthesis, Commentary, and Future Directions
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