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Coping with Role Overload

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Women, Work, and Health

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping ((SSSO))

Abstract

In this chapter we highlight findings from a program of research on coping with role strain and role conflict. Earlier research from our laboratory has focused primarily on how people deal with stressful life events such as physical disability (e.g., Bulman & Wortman, 1977) or the loss of a loved one (see, e.g., Lehman, Wortman, & Williams, 1987). Long-term goals of this research program include elaborating the theoretical mechanisms through which stress has deleterious effects on subsequent health and functioning (see Silver & Wortman, 1980, or Kessler, Price, & Wort-man, 1985, for reviews).

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  1. Department of Psychology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-8790, USA

    Camille Wortman

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA

    Monica Biernat

  3. American Institutes for Research, P.O. Box 1113, Palo Alto, California, 94302, USA

    Eric Lang

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  2. Prevention Sciences Group, School od Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA

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Wortman, C., Biernat, M., Lang, E. (1991). Coping with Role Overload. In: Frankenhaeuser, M., Lundberg, U., Chesney, M. (eds) Women, Work, and Health. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3712-0_5

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