title: The life course and the stress process: some conceptual comparisons.
abstract: This paper compares the meanings and applications of concepts relevant to both the life course and the stress process frameworks. Some of these concepts bear the same labels but serve quite different scholarly agendas. Other concepts have different labels but have closely related applications. The purpose of this kind of comparative analysis is to help both fields clarify the conceptual tools needed to advance their scholarly goals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. lpearlin@socy.umd.edu
authors.forename: Leonard I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Pearlin
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires