Complex Coping Patterns and Their Role in Adaptation and Neuroimmunomodulation: Theory, Methodology, and Research

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 917; no. 1; pp. 446 - 455
• Main Author: TEMOSHOK, LYDIA R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2000
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Animals; Humans; Models, Biological; Models, Theoretical; Neuroimmunomodulation

: This paper describes the evolution of a model of adaptative coping, as well as an example of the converse, a maladaptive coping pattern, type C. It was hypothesized that the more closely a coping process resembles the inverted U‐shaped function that characterizes homeostasis for most biological sy...