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My studies on hope and its effects on coping are still in their initial stages, and, consequently, this presentation will be a highly speculative one. It consists of an attempt to delineate some common foci pertaining to hope that can be found in a variety of stressful situations. These foci are abstractions based on qualitative information obtained in interviews with people under a serious threat, such as awaiting the results of biopsy testing for breast cancer, waiting for surgery, anticipation of a major oral exam, and so forth. Because the purpose of these interviews was hypothesis-generating, rather than testing, some clear notions about the role of hope, the samples are by no means representative, nor were they meant to be.
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Breznitz, S. (1986). The Effect of Hope on Coping with Stress. In: Appley, M.H., Trumbull, R. (eds) Dynamics of Stress. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5122-1_15
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