[Accepting stress. A contribution to research in coping]

A review of numerous studies on coping with stress points to the important role of the response class "accepting a stressful situation" in the daily lives of healthy persons and for patients coping with chronic disease and disability. For some extreme situations this response class is the only way to attain some affective balance and an adequate selection of adjustment processes. It is recommended that research on coping should not only focus on more or less complex response structures, but also on the analysis of specific response classes ("ways of coping").