◎contents 1. introduction : adolescent stress, social relationships, and mental health / Susan Gore and Mary Ellen Colten 2. Anger, work, and hurt in early adolescence : an enlarging world of negative emotions / Reed Larson and Linda Asmussen 3. Conflict and adaptation in adolescence : adolescent-parent conflict / Judith G. Smetana 4. Psychosocial stress during adolescence : intrapersonal and interpersonal processes / Bruce E. Compas and Burry M. Wagner 5. Coping with adolescence / Anne C. Petersen 6. Stressful events and their correlaters among adolescents of diverse backgrounds / Sanford M.Diverse 7. How stressful is the transition to adolescence for girls? / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn 8. The patterning of distress and disorder in a community sample of high school aged youth / Mary Ellen Colten 9. Minority youths at high risk : gay males and runaways / Mary Jane Rotheram-Bours 10. Childhood victimization : risk factor for delinquency / Cathy Spatz Widom 11. Psychoactive substance use and adolescent pregnancy : compounded risk among inner city adolescent mothers / Hortensia Amaro 12. Stress in mentally retarded children and adolescents / Gary N. Siperstein 13. A multilevel action research perspective on stress-related interventions / Manurice J. Elias 14. Social support in adolescence / Benjamin H. Gottlieb