Commuting Stress Causes, Effects, and Methods of Coping

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University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Editorial Board: Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Columbia University • Marianne Frankenhauser, University of Stockholm· Norman Garmezy, University of Minnesota· Mardi]. Horowitz, University of California Medical Schoo~ San Francisco • Richard S. Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley. Michael Rutter, University of London· Dennis C. Turk, University of Pittsburgh. John P. Wilson, Cleveland State University. Camille Wortman, University of Michigan

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Cotnmuting Stress Causes, Effects, and Methods of Coping

Meni Koslowsky Bar-Ilan University Ramat Can, Israel

Avraham N. Kluger The Hebrew University ofjerusalem jerusalem, Israel

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Mordechai Reich Private Practice Efrat. Israel

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To my wife Sandy, a woman of valor in deed and in time of need

To my late aunt Anna Forster

-MK -ANK

To my wife Serna, navigator par excellence, and our beloved backseat drivers Betzalel, Nechama, Shalom, and Meira

-MR

Preface

Several people have asked what motivated us to write a book about commuting, something that we all do but over which we have very little control. As a matter of fact, the general reaction from professional colleagues and friend