the findings revealed elderly African Americans experienced
recent volume covering a variety of issues, see Kasl & Cooper, 1987).
To structure this paper, we will discuss issues which primarily concern stress, coping and health
in separate sections. We emphasize that this is done for convenience of presentation rather than to
suggest independence of the issues addressed. As the following discussion will illustrate, many issues
are highly interrelated and, as a result, are relevant whether the research worker's specific focus is
stress, coping, or health.