Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping

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Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping

edited by Paul T.P. Wong, Lilian C.J. Wong ; foreword by Walter J. Lonner

(International and cultural psychology series / series editor, Anthony J. Marsella)

Springer, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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The only book currently available that focuses and multicultural, cross-cultural and international perspectives of stress and coping A very comprehensive resource book on the subject matter Contains many groundbreaking ideas and findings in stress and coping research Contributors are international scholars, both well-established authors as well as younger scholars with new ideas Appeals to managers, missionaries, and other professions which require working closely with people from other cultures

Table of Contents

Beyond Stress and Coping: The Positive Psychology of Transformation.- Theoretical Issues.- Culture: A Fundamental Context for the Stress and Coping Paradigm.- A New Theoretical Model of Collectivistic Coping.- Coping with Suffering: The Buddhist Perspective.- The Way of Nature as a Healing Power.- Advance in the Study of Religious and Spiritual Coping.- Coping Strategies and Culturally Influenced Beliefs about the World.- Personality Systems and a Biosocioexistential Model of Posttraumatic Responses Based on a Korean Sample.- Methodological Issues.- Frequently Ignored Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Stress Research.- Problems and Strategies When Using Rating Scales in Cross-Cultural Coping Research.- A Resource-Congruence Model of Coping and the Development of the Coping Schemas Inventory.- Acculturative Stress.- Acculturative Stress.- The Effects of Acculturative Stress on the Hispanic Family.- Coping with Domestic Violence by Japanese Canadian Women.- How Visible Minority Students Cope with Supervision Stress.- Psychological Skills Related to Intercultural Adjustment.- Culture, Coping, and Resilience.- Hardiness Considered Across Cultures.- Resilience as a Coping Mechanism: A Common Story of Vietnamese Refugee Women.- Stress and Coping Among Asian Americans: Lazarus and Folkman's Model and Beyond.- The Agony, Silent Grief, and Deep Frustration of Many Communities in the Middle East: Challenges for Coping and Survival.- Stress, Culture, and Racial Socialization: Making an Impact.- Adjustment and Coping in Aboriginal People.- Occupational Stress.- Towards an Understanding of Occupational Stress Among Asian Americans.- A Multicultural Perspective on Work-related Stress: Development of a Collective Coping Scale.- Conclusion.- Knowledge Gaps about Stress and Coping in a Multicultural Context.

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