Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping / International and Cultural Psychology (PDF)

Introduction: Beyond Stress and Coping: The Positive Psychology of Transformation.- Section 1. 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.- Section 2. Methodoligal 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 Schema Inventory.- Section 3. 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.- Section 4. 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 in Coping and Survival.- Stress, Culture, and Racial Socialization: Making an IMPACT.- Adjustment and Coping in Aboriginal People.-Section 5. 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.

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.

From the reviews:

The breadth of cultural perspectives represented in this handbook is truly extraordinary as well as refreshing. The diversity of the chapters encourages the reader to think about stress and coping in ways that broaden and enrich the mind. The volume is an invaluable resource for stress and coping researchers who want to find new and provocative ways to think about their own research and the research of others.

- Susan Folkman, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California – San Francisco

This is a comprehensive collection of papers on a topic of emerging importance in the cross-cultural literature. Stress and coping need to be considered by scholars from differing cultural backgrounds, since adaptation to the inevitable challenges of life must be socialized for all future participants in the cultural drama and this participation will  be shaped by the historical and philosophical traditions informing each of those cultures. The editors have assembled a diverse array of competent scholars from many cultural traditions to address key issues in the literature, and thus provided us readers with the necessary guidance for future comparative research in this fundamental topic area.

- Michael Harris Bond, Ph.D.
President, International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology

A cross-cultural book on coping has been long overdue and I cannot think of a better editor than Paul Wong to bring such a huge project to fruition. At last, with the publication of the Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping, the days of understanding coping without considering cross-cultural factors are over. Every researcher and practitioner who is interested in the topic of coping will want to read this magnificent volume.

- C. R. Snyder, Ph.D.
Wright Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology
University of Kansas, Lawrence