This study explores how American undergraduate interns from a large urban university cope with and adjust to cultural differences encountered during a two-month internship in Asia. The research investigates student perceptions and socio-cultural factors that affect interns as th…
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This study explored how Jewish Holocaust survivors had coped with various stress situations in their lives by identifying and articulating what were facilitative coping tactics. The goal of the study was to understand their lifelong coping process and to contribute to the field …
Despite the efforts of the Saudi government to link college graduates with jobs in both the public and private sectors, the problem of finding a job for recent college graduates in Saudi Arabia is growing. The lack of information about available jobs, an unwillingness among many…
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of stress, burnout, and coping strategies among public secondary school principals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All public secondary school principals in Kuala Lumpur were asked to participate in the study. The principals p…
Soccer officiating can be challenging, exciting, and rewarding. On the other hand, officials can also feel frustrated, abused, and unappreciated. Soccer officials face as much pressure and emotion—sometimes more—than the athletes and coaches. The purpose of this study was to giv…
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to an increase in concern for the mental health of U.S. military personnel. In 2004, 17% of military personnel were found to have generalized anxiety, depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder (Hoge, Castro, et al., 2004). As of 2008,…
Converging research suggests that spirituality and meaning in life may influence physical health. This experimental clinical trial tested whether Psycho-Spiritual Integrative Therapy (PSIT), which combines spiritual and psychological practices, positively influences physical hea…
The United States Army has experienced an extremely high operation tempo in the past nine years supporting ongoing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ongoing combat operations have placed an enormous toll on equipment, soldiers and families. Focusing on the imperativ…
Background: Newly admitted college students are subject to a massive input of stresses which require successful and ever-changing coping strategies. An expanding body of literature suggests that inadequate responses to coping with stress in adolescents of college age contributes…
Although religious and spiritual coping has been studied in adults, little is known about adolescent spiritual coping. Using an exemplar methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 youth exemplars, ages 12-21, nominated from five continents for living with a p…
This study examined the roles cohesion, coping, and perceived threat have in buffering the effect of war-zone stress on mental health symptoms. Specifically, six factors were tested as potential moderators of the relationship between combat-related stressors and posttraumatic st…
This dissertation project aimed to examine the meaning of social withdrawal in an inter-dependent cultural context (Turkey), its correlates, and the risk and protective factors for withdrawn children's adjustment across two consecutive studies. In Study 1, semi-structured interv…
The present study explores the nature of coping mechanisms among South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) who have been living in Canada between three to five years and experienced acculturation challenges and depression. Thirteen immigrants (seven …
Previous research has found that South Asian American women experience acculturative stress that is unique to experiences consistent with their culture (Inman, Ladany, Constantine, Morano, 2001). The current study examined the effect coping (collectivistic coping strategies and …
This study examined linkages between two aspects of the family context and children's appraisals, coping and attention regulation. Specifically, associations among these child variables and interparental conflict and supportive parent-child relationships were investigated, and s…
This study was designed to empirically investigate whether there was a relationship between perceived social support and cumulative levels of secondary traumatic stress symptoms of intrusion, avoidance, increased arousal, anxiety and numbing/depression in disaster workers. The s…
This study is designed to examine the impact of riverine hazards and displacement upon displacees, both males and females, in Bangladesh. The specific objectives of the study are to: (a) determine the magnitude of psychological distress associated with riverine hazards and displ…
The phenomenon of gender differences in alcohol consumption and depressive symptomatology has been well documented. Depression and alcohol consumption pose significant problems for society in the form of psychological, emotional, and financial costs. Nonetheless, such pathology …
This study evaluated the impact of the WISDOM microfinance program on household coping capacity and well being in drought-affected regions of Ethiopia. The study assessed the effect of microfinance programs on household income, savings, assets, diet, nutritional status, and copi…