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Dyadic Coping and Its Significance for Marital Functioning.

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A developmental-contextual model of couples coping with chronic illness across the adult life span.

TL;DR: The model provides a framework for understanding how couples coping with chronic illness may together appraise and cope with illness during adulthood and for determining when spousal involvement is beneficial or harmful to both patient andSpousal adjustment.
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The role of stress on close relationships and marital satisfaction.

TL;DR: Findings from stress research in couples that has practical significance and may inspire clinical work are summarized and future directions in research and clincial significance are suggested.
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Review and Meta-analysis of Couple-Oriented Interventions for Chronic Illness

TL;DR: Couple-oriented interventions have small effects that may be strengthened by targeting partners’ influence on patient health behaviors and focusing on couples with high illness-related conflict, low partner support, or low overall marital quality.
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Dyadic coping in metastatic breast cancer.

TL;DR: The findings underscore the importance of couples working together to manage the stress associated with MBC and the need for greater focus on the interactions between patients and their partners to address ways that couples can adaptively cope together.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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The structure of coping.

TL;DR: Results indicate that individuals' coping interventions are most effective when dealing with problems within the close interpersonal role areas of marriage and child-rearing and least effective when deals with the more impersonal problems found in occupation.
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Handbook of Stress: Theoretical and Clinical Aspects

TL;DR: In this article, 40 essays by specialists examine a variety of stress-related conditions, including AIDS, burnout phenomenon, ageing, chronic illnessm the aftermath of the Holocaust, psychosomatic disorders, biomedical indices of stress and sexual abuse.