The possible utility of this research has been evoked, as well as further work being carried out at present. Until recently, research on stress and coping has primarily focused on the individual, where we find a large body of theoretical and empirical work. On the other hand, there are far fewer empirical, and nearly no theoretical, approaches to these phenomena in couples. Stress in couples and forms of dyadic coping in a systemic view have largely been neglected as topics and have not yet attracted the attention of many psychologists. Furthermore, stress and coping are seldom discussed as a systemic phenomenon, but rather as individual affairs.
Theoretical conceptualizations are generally rare.
In this article, I will try to clarify stress and coping from a systemic and transactional point of view by proposing a new model of stress and coping processes in intimate relationships. Moreover, factors determining whether dyadic coping is practiced or not will be outlined. Summary Five university students with specific problems in studying underwent a systematic individually tailored training in four different domains consisting of one session per week over the course of roughly six months. Each session contained one or more training phases, each consisting of dialogues about how to master a given type of task, a trial subphase, and an evaluation sub-phase in which the trial was graded as a success or failure. Before and after the training phases, controlbelief tests were administered.