Peggy A. Thoits

Gender and Marital Status Differences in Control and Distress: Common Stress versus Unique Stress Explanations

Tentative d'explication de la vulnerabilite et de la detresse plus marquees chez la femme et les celibataires davantage exposes a des evenements sur lesquels ils n'ont aucune pr...

Dimensions of Life Events That Influence Psychological Distress: An Evaluation and Synthesis of the Literature

Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Problems in Studying Social Support as a Buffer Against Life Stress

The buffering hypothesis suggests that social support can moderate the impacts of life events upon mental health. However, several problems have yet to be resolved in this liter...

Multiple Identities and Psychological Well-Being: A Reformulation and Test of the Social Isolation Hypothesis

Drawing upon symbolic interactionist theory, this paper reconceptualizes social isolation as the possession offew social identities. Social identities (enacted in role relations...

Stressors and Problem-Solving: The Individual as Psychological Activist

Sociological researchers have tended to deemphasize the degree to which people are conscious, active agents in their own lives, focusing instead on factors which promote vulnera...