Moderating effects of three coping strategies and self-esteem on perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms: A minority stress model for Asian international students.

Wei, Meifen; Ku, Tsun-Yao; Russell, Daniel W.; Mallinckrodt, Brent; Liao, Kelly Yu-Hsin

doi:10.1037/a0012511

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“…Surprisingly, these associations were not significant in domestic students. Similar results were estimated in the study of Asian international students [17]. Also, in domestic students, lower levels of depressive symptoms were connected to social support and this was not affirmed in international students as found in a previous study [18].…”

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confidence: 77%

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Stress coping and psychological adaptation in the international students

2012

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AbstractInternational students all over the world meet a lot of stressful situations due to different academic demands, cultural context, language problems and other adaptation difficulties. There is little evidence to explain what stress coping strategies are used by international students to cope with stressful situations and how they are connected to psychological adaptation. So the purpose of this study was to assess associations between psychological adaptation and stress coping strategies in international and domestic students. The study recruited 356 students: 258 host and 98 international students. Stress coping strategies were measured by Coping Orientation of Problem Experience questionnaire. Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale was used to measure depressive symptoms. Stress related health complaints were measured using a scale devised by the authors of this study. The study ascertained that in stressful situations international students used different stress coping strategies when compared to domestic students. Moreover, stress coping strategies used by international and domestic students were differently connected to health outcomes. The study pointed out that by researchers and counselors’ special attention should be given to international students.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…al. [17], where avoidance coping was associated with depressive symptoms in Asian international students. There is also some evidence that religious coping may be useful for international students' adaptation in a foreign country [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Stress coping and psychological adaptation in the international students

2012

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“…67,68 This cut-point has been increasingly used in research on the social determinants of health. [69][70][71][72][73] To linearize their relationship to the outcome, we logged the syringe access and ESAP access variables. Individual-level continuous variables were mean-centered.…”

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Spatial Access to Sterile Syringes and the Odds of Injecting with an Unsterile Syringe among Injectors: A Longitudinal Multilevel Study

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Despite the 2010 repeal of the ban on spending federal monies to fund syringe exchange programs (SEPs) in the USA, these interventions-and specifically SEP site locations-remain controversial. To further inform discussions about the location of SEP sites, this longitudinal multilevel study investigates the relationship between spatial access to sterile syringes distributed by SEPs in New York City (NYC) United Hospital Fund (UHF) districts and injecting with an unsterile syringe among injectors over time (1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006). Annual measures of spatial access to syringes in each UHF district (N = 42) were created using data on SEP site locations and site-specific syringe distribution data. Individual-level data on unsterile injecting among injectors (N = 4,067) living in these districts, and on individual-level covariates, were drawn from the Risk Factors study, an ongoing cross-sectional study of NYC drug users. We used multilevel models to explore the relationship of district-level access to syringes to the odds of injecting with an unsterile syringe in 975% of injection events in the past 6 months, and to test whether this relationship varied by district-level arrest rates (per 1,000 residents) for drug and drug paraphernalia possession. The relationship between district-level access to syringes and the odds of injecting with an unsterile syringe depended on district-level arrest rates. In districts with low baseline arrest rates, better syringe access was associated with a decline in the odds of frequently injecting with an unsterile syringe (AOR, 0.95). In districts with no baseline syringe access, higher arrest rates were associated with increased odds of frequently injecting with an unsterile syringe (AOR, 1.02) When both interventions were present, arrest rates eroded the protective effects of spatial access to syringes. Spatial access to syringes in small geographic areas appears to reduce the odds of injecting with an unsterile syringe among local injectors, and arrest rates elevate these odds. Policies and practices that curtail syringe flow in geographic areas (e.g., restrictions on SEP locations or syringe distribution) or that make it difficult for injectors to use the sterile syringes they have acquired may damage local injectors' efforts to reduce HIV transmission and other injection-related harms.

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“…Additionally, Asian international students may also be reluctant to speak to family members and friends in their home country about how they are feeling for fear of burdening them with their problems (Constantine, Kindaichi, Okazaki, Gainor, & Baden, 2005;Heppner, et al, 2006). Due to these factors, emotional suppression may be the favoured coping style of Asian international students when faced with acculturative stressors, which may increase vulnerability to depression and anxiety (Chataway & Berry, 1989;Wei, Ku, Russell, Mallinckrodt, & Liao, 2008). The use of maladaptive coping strategies might be one factor contributing to research findings that have demonstrated that Asian international students report more acculturative stress than European international students (Poyrazli & Kavanaugh, 2006;Poyrazli, et al, 2004;Yang & Clum, 1994;Yeh & Inose, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%