| | | Contributors | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| | | Introduction | | |
| | | An Historical Introduction to Response Shift by Allen Parducci | | 3 |
| Pt. I | | Theoretical Reflections | | 9 |
| 1 | | Integrating Response Shift Into Health-Related Quality-of-Life Research: A Theoretical Model by Mirjam A. G. Sprangers and Carolyn E. Schwartz | | 11 |
| 2 | | Response Shift: A Coping Perspective by T. Anne Richards and Susan Folkman | | 25 |
| 3 | | Response Shifts in Prostate Cancer Patients: An Evaluation of Suppressor and Buffer Models by Stephen J. Lepore and David T. Eton | | 37 |
| 4 | | Personal Goals and Response Shifts: Understanding the Impact of Illness and Events on the Quality of Life of People Living With AIDS by Bruce D. Rapkin | | 53 |
| 5 | | Discussion: Theoretical Reflections by Carolyn E. Schwartz and Mirjam A. G. Sprangers | | 73 |
| Pt. II | | Methodological Pathway | | 79 |
| 6 | | Methodological Approaches for Assessing Response Shift in Longitudinal Health-Related Quality-of-Life Research by Carolyn E. Schwartz and Mirjam A. G. Sprangers | | 81 |
| 7 | | Response Shift Effects on Patients Evaluations of Health States: Sources of Artifact by Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas and Carolyn E. Schwartz | | 109 |
| 8 | | Measuring Response Shift Using the Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life by Ciaran A. OBoyle and Hannah M. McGee and John P. Browne | | 123 |
| 9 | | Response Shift and Fatigue: The Use of the Thentest Approach by Mirjam A. G. Sprangers and Frits S. A. M. van Dam and Jenny Broersen | | 137 |
| 10 | | Discussion: Methodological Pathways by Mirjam A. G. Sprangers and Carolyn E. Schwartz | | 153 |
| Pt. III | | New Perspectives on Existing Data | | 157 |
| 11 | | Clinical Understanding and Clinical Implications of Response Shift by Ira B. Wilson | | 159 |
| 12 | | Helping Others Helps Oneself: Response Shift Effects in Peer Support by Carolyn E. Schwartz and Meir Sendor | | 175 |
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