Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping (eBook)

Paul T. P. Wong (Ed.) received his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Toronto. He has held professorial positions at the University of Texas at Austin, York University, Trent University, and the University of Toronto, and has spent one year as a Visiting Scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles. He moved to Vancouver from Toronto in 1994 to assume the position of Director of Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology of Trinity Western University, where he currently holds the position of Research Director and Professor. He is the founding President of the International Network on Personal Meaning (www.meaning.ca), the International Society for Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy (www.existentialpsychology.org), and the Meaning-Centered Counselling Institute. With more than 120 published articles and book chapters reflecting his many research interests, he has focused on the roles of meaning, appraisal, and culture in the stress and coping process. The Stress Appraisal Measure developed by Edward Peacock and P. T.P. Wong has been widely used. His resource-congruence model is one of the early coping theories that emphasize the importance of cultural context. As well, he is a pioneer in research on stress and coping in the Chinese elderly. His edited volume (with Prem Fry as co-editor) on The Human Quest for Meaning Lawrence (Erlbaum Associates, Publishers) has contributed to the current interest in meaning research. Lilian C. J. Wong (Ed.), received her B.Sc. (Toronto), M.A. (Educational Psychology,  University of Texas at Austin), and Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. She also completed courses in Special Education and Psychopathology from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of School Counselling of the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology, at Trinity Western University, BC, Canada. She had held positions as Psychoeducational Consultant with the Peterborough County Board of Education, Ontario, and School Psychologist and Area Counsellor with the Vancouver School Board. Her primary research area is multicultural supervision competencies. Her Multicultural Supervision Competencies Questionnaire (developed with Paul Wong) has contributed to the conceptualization and measurement of multicultural supervision competencies. She has taken an active part in the Roundtable Discussions in Exploring Psychotherapy Supervision and Training, at APA Annual Conventions for the last few years. Her other research interests include cross-cultural assessment and counseling, emotional and social intelligence, and moral development. She has presented internationally workshops in play therapy and grieving in children and adolescents. She is currently on the Education Committee of BC Association for Play Therapy and on the board of the International Network on Personal Meaning. She is the editor of "A Journey of Courage" (a Commemorative Publication, Trinity Western University). She also is Vice-President of The Meaning-Centered Counselling Institute, Inc.

Foreword 6
Contents 9
Contributors 13
Introduction 26
BEYOND STRESS AND COPING: The Positive Psychology of Transformation 27
Section 1 Theoretical Issues 53
CULTURE: A Fundamental Context for the Stress and Coping Paradigm 54
A NEW THEORETICAL MODEL OF COLLECTIVISTIC COPING 79
COPING WITH SUFFERING: The Buddhist Perspective 97
THE WAY OF NATURE AS A HEALING POWER 114
ADVANCE IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL COPING 127
COPING STRATEGIES AND CULTURALLY INFLUENCED BELIEFS ABOUT THE WORLD 155
PERSONALITY SYSTEMS AND A BIOSOCIOEXISTENTIAL MODEL OF POSTTRAUMATIC RESPONSES BASED ON A KOREAN SAMPLE 176
Section 2 Methodological Issues 206
FREQUENTLY IGNORED METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN CROSS- CULTURAL STRESS RESEARCH 207
PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES WHEN USING RATING SCALES IN CROSS- CULTURAL COPING RESEARCH 222
A RESOURCE-CONGRUENCE MODEL OF COPING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COPING SCHEMAS INVENTORY 241
Section 3 Acculturative Stress 302
ACCULTURATIVE STRESS 303
THE EFFECTS OF ACCULTURATIVE STRESS ON THE HISPANIC FAMILY 315
COPING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY JAPANESE CANADIAN WOMEN 334
HOW VISIBLE MINORITY STUDENTS COPE WITH SUPERVISION STRESS 376
PSYCHOLOGICAL SKILLS RELATED TO INTERCULTURAL ADJUSTMENT 402
Section 4 Culture, Coping, and Resilience 421
HARDINESS CONSIDERED ACROSS CULTURES 422
RESILIENCE AS A COPING MECHANISM: A Common Story of Vietnamese Refugee Women 440
STRESS AND COPING AMONG ASIAN AMERICANS: Lazarus and Folkman’s Model and Beyond 451
THE AGONY, SILENT GRIEF, AND DEEP FRUSTRATION OF MANY COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Challenges for Coping and Survival 468
STRESS, CULTURE, AND RACIAL SOCIALIZATION: Making an Impact 498
ADJUSTMENT AND COPING IN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE 525
Section 5 Occupational Stress 542
TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AMONG ASIAN AMERICANS 543
A MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON WORKRELATED STRESS: Development of a Collective Coping Scale 562
KNOWLEDGE GAPS ABOUT STRESS AND COPING IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT 585
Author Index 602