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The transactional model of stress and coping is a cognitive model, which conceptualizes stress and coping as a process based on changing cognitive appraisals.
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Richard Lazarus (1922–2002) was 1 of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century, and a short biography that describes his life achievements appears in the Encyclopedia of Health Psychology (Christensen et al. 2004). During the 1950s and 1960s, in his research, Lazarus developed the first version of the transactional model of stress and coping and described it in his book Psychological Stress and the Coping Process, first published in 1966. Following intensive research during the 1970s and 1980s in collaboration with Susan Folkman, another book was published, Stress, Appraisal, and Coping (Lazarus and Folkman 1984), which developed the initial model further, shaping and explaining the...
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Ben-Zur, H. (2019). Transactional Model of Stress and Coping. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2128-1
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