Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-239) and indexes.

Mental health in Black America / Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Jackson -- A model-free approach to the study of subjective well-being / Carolyn Benett Murray and M. Jean Peacock -- Stress and residential well-being / Gayle Y. Phillips -- Problem drinking, chronic disease, and recent life events / Isidore Obot -- An analysis of stress denial / Rhoda Barge Johnson and Joan E. Crowley -- Marital status and mental health / Diane Brown -- The association between anger-hostility and hypertension / Ernest Johnson and Larry Gant -- Coping with personal problems / Clifford L. Broman -- Kin and nonkin as sources of informal assistance / Robert J. Taylor, Cheryl Burns Hardison, and Linda M. Chatters -- Predisposing, enabling, and need factors related to patterns of help-seeking among African American women / Cleopatra H. Caldwell -- Mental health symptoms and service utilization patterns of helf-seeking among African American women / Vicki Mays, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, and James S. Jackson -- The police : a reluctant social service agency in the African American communities / Patricia A. Washington -- Changes in African American resources and mental health : 1979 to 1992 / James S. Jackson and Harold W. Neighbors.