The Future of Coping Research as We Know It

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Abstract
The author responds to commentaries by J. C. Coyne, S. Folkman, S. E. Hobfoll and J. D. Wells, R. S. Lazarus, H. Leventhal, T. L. Patterson and R. M. Kaplan, T. A. Revenson, C. A. Smith and K. A. Wallston, J. Spicer, D. Spiegel, and H. Weber concerning his target article on the utility of systems models of stress and adaptation for applied coping research. The author addresses the pragmatic advantages of targeted, programmatic applied coping research; the potential contributions of coping research on specific stressors to basic stress and coping research; measurement, design, and analysis issues in coping research; the value of systems concepts and methods for stress and coping research; the integration of dispositional and situational coping approaches; and the future of coping research.