THE STRESS PROCESS AND HEALTH: A CONFIGURATIONAL APPROACH* Kyle C. Longest University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and Peggy A. Thoits Indiana University Word Count: 10,630 Tables: 4 Running Head: Stress Process and Health May 27 2008 ***DRAFT UNDER REVIEW: PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR DISTRIBUTE WITHOUT CORRESPONDING AUTHOR’S PERMISSION*** *Address all correspondence to Kyle C. Longest at Department of Sociology, 155 Hamilton Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210, or klongest@email.unc.edu. We would like to thank Allan Horwitz and Blair Wheaton for their comments on an earlier draft and Charles Ragin for his input and feedback on the analytic method. This research was supported in part by the Center for Developmental Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.