Social Factors in Psychopathology: Stress, Social Support, and Coping Processes

C. Kessler, Ronald; H. Price, Richard; B. Wortman, Camille

doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.36.020185.002531

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Social Factors in Psychopathology: Stress, Social Support, and Coping Processes

Published in Annual Review of Psychology • Jan 1, 1985

Authors:

Ronald C. Kessler

Richard H. Price

Camille B. Wortman

Abstract

Our review has focused centrally on the etiologic significance of social factors in the development of psychopathology. Our implicit assumption has been that social factors in general, and stressors in particular, may play a causal role in the development of psychopathology. Yet the evidence is clea...

Subject

Psychology

Psychopathology

Coping (psychology)

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