Unfortunately, injustices happen often, leading to psychological distress, which makes it important to find a healthy way to cope. Ways people can cope with injustice include engaging in political activities, vigilantism, religion, spirituality, writing, as well as believing in …
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Studies on discrimination were mainly based on African American experiences of racial discrimination, although literature suggests various groups are differentially exposed and impacted by one form of discrimination or the other. Research on other forms of discrimination has dra…
Military service men and women face a number of challenges upon returning from deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Stressors prior to, during, and after deployment can greatly affect veterans' mental health status, with rates of depression, alcohol abuse, and relationship dissati…
This study investigated the relationship between family conflict and two dimensions of psychological maladjustment (i.e., depression and somatization), while also exploring the potential mediating roles of sociotropy and coping among Iranian American adolescents. A sample of 85 …
This present study examined how personality factors, levels of acculturation, and Iranian Americans' unique heritage all work together to affect them and their coping experience within the United States. Self-report ratings of the Five Factors of personality, Brief COPE coping s…
Research shows that family supports can mitigate military-service related Behavioral Health (BH) problems. As women play a growing role in military operations, it is important to assess if relationships between family ties and coping skills are the same for servicemen and servic…
The purpose of this secondary analysis was to understand the coping and adaptation processes of reservist soldiers and one family member throughout the first year following deployment to Iraq. A directed content analysis based on the Roy (2009, 2011) conceptualization of coping …
A natural gas pipeline exploded in a residential neighborhood in Western United States. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of resilience in the aftermath of this disaster. Traditionally, disaster literature has focused on the negative impacts of disasters, emphasi…
Meaning-making coping is an essential process for recovery from combat trauma. The meanings that combat veterans make after combat trauma, the meaning-based processes they utilize, and the social interactions they experience have not been compared across outcomes. This study was…
The ethnographic study illustrated the significance of leisure in the lives of the acid attack survivors in Bangladesh. The study emanated from a series of interviews and prolonged contact with 13 young female survivors. Although the issue of violence and oppression of women has…
The dissertation is about Sasak ethnomedicine in a pluralistic medical setting and argues that the organization of medical knowledge has profound consequences for people's health. The Sasak people live on Lombok, an island with the dubious distinction of having a population with…
The aim of this doctoral project is to examine the mental health needs of the immigrant Lebanese community in the United States, particularly those related to trauma symptomatology resulting from experiences of political instability and many years of civil war in Lebanon. Many L…
Since September 11th , 2001 there has been an increase in attention to and awareness of the experiences of Muslims. Alongside this growing interest, the post-9/11 era has witnessed a dramatic backlash against Muslims with a sharp increase in prejudice and discrimination (Council…
Objective . Utilization of Army National Guard troops in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a critical change in the mission requirements for the Reserve branches of the military. Although much prior research has documented the impact of deployment in the live…
Afghan women who have immigrated to the United States have often been exposed to violence and other war-related traumas. This qualitative research explores some of these experiences and examines the behaviors that eight Afghan women engaged in to support the mental health of the…
The study sought to determine the relationship between both positive and negative religious beliefs and adjustment to chronic pain, as measured by pain severity, disability, depression, anger, and positive and negative affect. This study also sought to identify specific secular …
Academic stress is a serious problem faced by international students. 132 undergraduate and graduate students studying at various educational institutions in the United States of America were surveyed on the stress they experience when confronted by 10 common academic situations…
A cross sectional study compared the coping styles of 60 African American men and women to 101 White males and females. This study was done to examine what specific adaptive and also maladaptive coping styles are used by HIV-positive African Americans compared to Whites. The goa…
In my dissertation first I first review the role of social institutions (e.g. social networks, civic engagement, voluntary activities, trust etc.) in providing missing public goods in various contexts across different countries. Among developing countries, Bangladesh faces very …