CONTENTS
Foreword / Robert J. Haggerty = ⅸ
Preface = xi
1. Introduction: Adolescent Stress, Social Relationships, and Mental Health / Susan Gore ; Mary Ellen Colten = 1
Part I. Editors' Overview Development, Stress and Relationships = 15
2. Anger, Worry, and Hurt in Early Adolescence: An Enlarging World of Negative Emotions / Reed Larson ; Linda Asmussen = 21
3. Conflict and Adaptation in Adolescence: Adolescent-Parent Conflict / Judith G. Smetana ; Jenny Yau ; Angela Restrepo ; Judith L. Braeges = 43
4. Psychosocial Stress during Adolescence: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes / Bruce E. Compas ; Barry M. Wagner = 67
Part II. Editors' Overview Sources of Variation in Stress and Stress Responses = 87
5. Coping with Adolescence / Anne C. Petersen ; Robert E. Kennedy ; Patricia Sullivan = 93
6. Stressful Events and Their Correlates among Adolescents of Diverse Backgrounds / Sanford M. Dombusch ; Randy Mont-Reynaud ; Philip L. Ritter ; Zeng-yin Chen ; Laurence Steinberg = 111
7. How Stressful Is the Transition to Adolescence for Girls? / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn = 131
Part III. Editors' Overview Youth at Risk: The Social Situation and Mental Health of Adolescents Under Adversity = 151
8. The Patterning of Distress and Disorder in a Community Sample of High School Aged Youth / Mary Ellen Colten ; Susan Gore ; Robert H. Aseltine, Jr. = 157
9. Minority Youths at High Risk: Gay Males and Runaways / Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus ; Margaret Rosario ; Cheryl Koopman = 181
10. Childhood Victimization: Risk Factor for Delinquency / Cathy Spatz Widom = 201
11. Psychoactive Substance Use and Adolescent Pregnancy: Compounded Risk among Inner City Adolescent Mothers / Hortensia Amaro ; Barry Zuckerman = 223
12. Stress in Mentally Retarded Children and Adolescents / Gary N. Siperstein ; Melodie Wentz-Gross = 237
Part IV. Editors' Overview Strategies for Intervention = 257
13. A Multilevel Action Research Perspective on Stress-Related Interventions / Maurice J. Elias = 261
14. Social Support in Adolescence / Benjamin H. Gottlieb = 281
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors = 307
Author Index = 312
Subject Index = 322