Beyond Stress and Coping: The Positive Psychology of Transformation

Wong, Paul T. P.; Wong, Lilian C. J.; Scott, Carolyn

doi:10.1007/0-387-26238-5_1

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“…According to Brislin, "culture refers to widely shared ideals, values, formation, and uses of categories, assumptions about life, and goal-directed activities that become unconsciously or subconsciously accepted as right and correct by people who identify themselves as members of a society" [24]. Caregiving was seen as "right and correct" by all of the focus groups.…”

Section: Theme 1 Cultural Embeddedness Of Caregiving: "It Is Notmentioning

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Culture, Caregiving, and Health: Exploring the Influence of Culture on Family Caregiver Experiences

Pharr

Francis

Terry³

et al. 2014

ISRN Public Health

148

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Ethnic minorities are expected to experience a greater demand for family caregiving than non-Latino Whites due to their projected population growth. Although the consensus of researchers on caregiving and culture finds that the caregiving experience differs significantly among cultural/ethnic groups, the question remains as to how cultural values and norms influence the caregiver experiences. We conducted an interpretative, phenomenological qualitative analysis of focus group transcripts from four groups (African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and European American) for cultural influences on caregiving. Data were collected in Nevada between December 7, 2009, and August 20, 2010. Thirty-five caregivers participated in this study. We found commonalities among all of the cultural/ethnic groups in their experiences of the difficulties of caregiving. However, there were some significant differences in the cultural values and norms that shaped the caregiving experience. We categorized these differences as: (a) cultural embeddedness of caregiving, (b) cultural determinants of caregiving responsibilities or taxonomy of caregiving, and (c) cultural values and norms underlying the decision to provide care. The significance of this study is that it highlights the culturally perceived mandate to provide care in the African, Asian, and Hispanic American cultures.

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Section: Theme 1 Cultural Embeddedness Of Caregiving: "It Is Notmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Caregiving, and Health: Exploring the Influence of Culture on Family Caregiver Experiences

Pharr

Francis

Terry³

et al. 2014

ISRN Public Health

148

127

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“…Lazarus and Folkman (1984) have also pointed out that direct problem-solving and positive reappraisal can be distinct coping strategies, and have included these in their 'Ways of Coping' questionnaire (1988). Wong, Wong, and Scott (2006) also similarly differentiated between an inward cognitive and a more action-focused outward approach coping, both of which they described as active styles. Latack (1986) and Armstrong-Stassen (2005) also grouped cognitive reappraisal and direct-action as forms of proactive and control-oriented coping styles, which are distinct from the more reactive emotion and escape focused styles.…”

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Action and cognition in task oriented coping: Factor structure and internal consistency of the CISS-21 with an Indian sample

Golpelwar

2014

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Objective: Although the Coping Instrument for Stressful Situations -21 item scale (CISS-21) offers excellent psychometric stability in samples from various countries, data about its validity and reliability among Indian samples is not easily accessible. The current study presents these data from a sample consisting of urban Indians working in the global service sector.Method: Two hundred and seventy four professionals working in highly paying service sector jobs in India completed the CISS-21. The data was analyzed using principal factor analysis and reliability analysis.Results: Instead of the three-factor structure consisting of emotion-oriented, avoidance-oriented, and task-oriented coping strategies, a four-factor structure emerged. This resulting structure indicates that the current Indian sample perceived the task-oriented coping strategy as comprising of two distinct sub-factors: One involving cognitive-appraisal based mechanisms and another where a direct action-based approach is preferred.Conclusion: among the Indian sample involved in the current study, CISS-21 appears to be a reliable and valid scale, albeit with a four instead of three factor structure. Naïve dialecticism and Biculturalism are presented and discussed as possible reasons for this unique factor structure.

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“…However, the extant stress and coping research, generated over the last three decades, has received criticism for being overly "acontextual" and lacking realism (Folkman and Moskowitz, 2004 ;Somerfi eld and McCrae, 2000 ). This includes the fact that empirical efforts to articulate the relationship between culture and coping have been very scarce (Dunahoo et al , 1998 ;Wong, Wong, and Scott, 2006 ).…”

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“…Despite the fact that culture is implicated as a pivotal factor in the stress-coping process based on Lazarus and Folkman's ( 1984 ) original person-environment fi t paradigm, subsequent empirical works established in this tradition have not investigated cultural factors adequately (Aldwin, 1994 ;Wester, Kuo, and Vogel, 2006 ). Hence, the extant stress-coping research and theories have been criticized for being overly western, European American in perspective (Utsey, Adams, and Borden, 2000 ;Wong, Wong, and Scott, 2006 ), with a partisan view toward "rugged individualism" (Hobfoll, 1998 ;Dunahoo et al , 1998 ), and action-oriented coping (Phillips and Pearson, 1996 ).…”

Section: Western-based Individualistic Assumptions Of Stress-coping mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although embedded in the research traditions of Europe and North America, the seminal coping model of Lazarus and Folkman ( 1984 ) has remained uncontested for more than four decades (Wong, Wong and Scott, 2006 ). The limited scope of western research models necessitate that future researchers utilize multicultural perspectives for the benefi t of science and practice.…”

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