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Culture and mental health: Psychological adjustment and coping of Chinese immigrants in a Canadian community.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Culture and mental health: Psychological adjustment and coping of Chinese immigrants in a Canadian community./
Author:	Lin, Merry C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-11, Section: B, page: 5946.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-11B.
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NN84225
ISBN:	9780315842250

Culture and mental health: Psychological adjustment and coping of Chinese immigrants in a Canadian community.
Lin, Merry C.

Culture and mental health: Psychological adjustment and coping of Chinese immigrants in a Canadian community. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-11, Section: B, page: 5946.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University (Canada), 1993.

Recent research indicates that Chinese people immigrating to North America are likely vulnerable to mental health problems because of the many stressors which they undergo in moving to a new country. Moreover, these stressors interact with their cultural background to produce elevated levels of psychological distress and maladjustment. Research has also shown that the coping strategies which the Chinese employ differ from those used by Caucasians in that the Chinese prefer avoidance-oriented and task-oriented coping strategies over emotion-oriented coping. As their coping styles are often inadequate in their new country, emotional difficulties may develop or be exacerbated among Chinese people. Since the stigma of mental problems is felt very strongly by the Chinese, however, somatization will often occur. The present study compared 60 Chinese and 60 Caucasian individuals (with 30 males and 30 females in each ethnic sample) solicited from various physicians' offices located across Metropolitan Toronto, Canada, in terms of their coping strategies, their stress, anxiety, and depression levels, and the somatic manifestation on their emotional problems. In addition, the effects of gender on these measures were also measured. As predicted, the results of the study indicated that the Chinese subjects were more likely to endorse higher levels of stress, anxiety (both state and trait), depression, and somatization than were the Caucasians. In addition, they were more likely to report utilizing distraction avoidance coping strategies. Contrary to expectations, there were no significant ethnic differences in terms of emotion-oriented or task-oriented coping. With respect to coping responses to health problems, the Chinese subjects scored higher than the Caucasians in their use of instrumental coping, as well as palliative coping, but scored significantly lower in terms of their use of distraction-oriented coping when dealing with health issues. No significant ethnic reflects were noted for negative emotion coping. Gender differences were also found for a number of the measures employed. As predicted, females endorsed significantly higher levels of trait anxiety for socially evaluative and physically dangerous situations than did males. Furthermore, they were more likely to report the use of emotion-oriented and avoidance-oriented coping strategies than were the males, although the males did not, as expected, score significantly higher on their use of task-oriented coping. Females were also found to utilize distraction and palliative coping methods to deal with health problems more often than males, although there were no significant gender differences in terms of instrumental and negative emotion responses. A number of background dimensions appeared to moderate the likelihood of psychological distress, the most salient being the level of English fluency. For the Chinese participants, psychological symptoms appeared to be associated with a lowered proficiency for English. Moreover, a number of other factors, such as the existence of social or family support, and the length of time living in Canada were also found to be of some significance in moderating the psychological adjustment of the Chinese subjects.

ISBN: 9780315842250Subjects--Topical Terms:

524863
Clinical psychology.

Culture and mental health: Psychological adjustment and coping of Chinese immigrants in a Canadian community.
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