Abstract
This issue is a continuation of the presentation of reports from W-167 Western Regional Agricultural Experiment Station project, Coping with Stress, Adaptation of Nonmetropolitan Families to Socioeconomic Changes. The first set of articles was published in Volume 9, Issue 2. In all, there were nine states participating in the project, and a total of 11 articles are included in the two special issues of this journal. The first article included here, by Krannich, Riley, and Leffier, examines the broad question of perceived stress as related not only to various life events, but also as affected by economic satisfaction, health problems, and selected demographic characteristics. Their data were collected in Utah. Several similar characteristics are discussed in the article by Berger, Powell, and Cook. This study, however, concentrated on families who had relocated within the last year within Colorado and Wyoming. Awareness and use of community services by families experiencing economic problems is the focal point of the s tudy in Washington stare. Price and Dunlap analyze and compare various types of services generally available in most rural communities. Marotz-Baden studies two-generation farm and ranch families in Montana. She analyzes stress, income, and economic satisfaction for each of the four members of these families. Haldeman and Peters identify and quantify resources which are used by rural Nevadans as resistors to stress. In the final article of this issue, Weigel discusses the implications of all of the studies presented in these two special issues. He suggests service and educational approaches which build on the fmdings of these and other retated studies. Suggestions of direct value to families and to
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