Stress and adversity over the life course: Trajectories: long-term effects of adverse experience

List of contributors 1. Trajectories and turning points over the life course: concepts and themes Blair Wheaton and Ian H. Gotlib Part I. Trajectories: Long-Term Effects of Adverse Experience: 2. Childhood adversity and adult psychopathology Ronald C. Kessler, Jacquelyn Gillis-Light, William J. Magee, Kenneth S. Kendler and Lindon J. Eaves 3. The impact of twenty childhood and adult traumatic stressors on the risk of psychiatric disorder Blair Wheaton, Patricia Roszell and Kimberlee Hall 4. Intergenerational sanction sequences and trajectories of street-crime amplification John Hagan and Bill McCarthy 5. School-leavers' self-esteem and unemployment: turning point or a station on a trajectory? David Dooley and JoAnn Prause 6. Intergenerational consequences of social stressors: effects of occupational and family conditions on young mothers and their children Elizabeth G. Menaghan 7. Women's roles and resilience: trajectories of advantage or turning points? Phyllis Moen Part II. Turning Points: Changes in Life Trajectories: 8. Becoming unsupervised: children's transitions from adult-care to self-care in the afterschool hours Deborah Belle, Sara Norell and Anthony Lewis 9. Children whose parents divorce: life trajectories and turning points Donald Wertlieb 10. Life after high school: development, stress and well-being Susan Gore, Robert Aseltine, Jr, Mary Ellen Colten and Bin Lin 11. Turning points in midlife Elaine Wethington, Hope Cooper and Carolyn S. Holmes 12. Adaptation to retirement Robert S. Weiss Part III. New Methods for the Study of the Life Course: 13. Construction and use of the life history calendar: reliability and validity of recall data Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel and Wan-foon Gina Lai 14. Using discrete-time survival analysis to study event occurrence across the life course John B. Willett and Judith D. Singer Index.