Challenges to the developmental study of coping.
We summarize progress in the developmental study of coping, including specification of a multilevel framework, construction of definitions of coping that rely on regulation as a core concept, and identification of developmentally graded members of families of coping. We argue that these accomplishments are a prelude to the real tasks of a developmental agenda: (1) identifying age-graded shifts in how children and adolescents recognize, react to, and deal with the stressors they encounter in their daily lives; (2) determining the developmental processes that underlie these shifts; and (3) describing and explaining differential pathways for negotiating these normative transitions.
Skinner
Ellen A
EA
Department of Psychology at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Zimmer-Gembeck
Melanie J
MJ
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D041923:Adolescent Development; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008960:Models, Psychological; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult