Hong Kong family caregivers?? stress and coping for people with brain injury

More than 15 million Americans are providing care for a family member with Alzheimer’s disease. Family caregivers are faced with highly stressful experiences, using strong coping skills, and implementing critical decisions with little or no knowledge or information and with virtually no preparation or assistance. The need for research efforts to focus on caregiver stress, coping mechanisms, and informed decision-making skills spearheaded a theoretical framework to study the potential relationships between family caregivers’ types of stress, coping skills, and their decision-making efforts. Constructs of life event stress, role strain, self-concept stress, and coping stress were examined relative to 10 priority areas of decision-making identified by the national Alzheimer’s Association. A relational non-experimental research design was utilized. Caregivers completed four Likert-scale instruments with data analyzed using descriptive statistics and rank-order correlation procedures. Findings indicated varying levels of stress, strong family self-efficacy and high levels of coping skills contribute to critical decision-making.

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Language and Interpersonal Resource Predictors of Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation: International Students in Hong Kong

Journal of Studies in International Education ◽

10.1177/1028315318825336 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 572-588 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Baohua Yu ◽

Peter Bodycott ◽

Anita S. Mak

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Hong Kong ◽

International Students ◽

Language Proficiency ◽

Cultural Adaptation ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Sociocultural Adaptation ◽

Cross Cultural Adaptation ◽

And Coping

Hong Kong, along with other Asian societies with universities with top world rankings, has in recent years attracted an increasing number of international students, mainly from Asia. Previous research in English-speaking Western countries has indicated the importance of resources, including language proficiency, positive intergroup relations, and social support, in understanding international students’ stress and coping in cross-cultural adaptation. Guided by a similar acculturative stress and coping framework, we investigated predictors of psychological and sociocultural adaptation in a survey sample of 726 international students (62% female and 73% Asian-born) from Hong Kong public universities. We found that English language proficiency, social support, and a low level of perceived discrimination fostered both types of cross-cultural adaptation, while contact with local students and proficiency in the local dialect further enhanced sociocultural adaptation. Implications for future acculturation research and higher education internationalization policies and practices are discussed.

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Caring ability, burden, stress and coping of family caregivers of people in cancer treatment

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0605 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 72 (6) ◽

pp. 1541-1546 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Larissa de Carli Coppetti ◽

Nara Marilene Oliveira Girardon-Perlini ◽

Rafaela Andolhe ◽

Laís Mara Caetano da Silva ◽

Steffani Nikoli Dapper ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cancer Treatment ◽

Family Caregivers ◽

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Inverse Correlation ◽

Treatment Method ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Maladaptive Coping ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Brief Cope ◽

And Coping

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the association between the caring ability and the burden, stress and coping of family caregivers of people in cancer treatment. Method: A cross-sectional study with 132 family caregivers. The following instruments were applied: a characterization instrument, the Caring Ability Inventory, the Zarit Burden Interview, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Brief COPE. The Spearman Correlation was used with significance ≤5%. Results: There were significant and positive correlations between total caring ability and: burden - interpersonal relationship (p=0.03); stress (p=0.02) and maladaptive coping (p=0.00); and inversely proportional correlations with problem-focused coping (p=0.03). The courage had inversely proportional correlation with: self-efficacy (p=0.03), interpersonal relationship (p=0.00), stress (p=0.04) and maladaptive coping (p=0.00). The knowledge had significant and positive correlation with problem-focused coping (p=0.00), adaptive coping (p=0.01), and inverse correlation with stress (p=0.02). Conclusion: The level of caring ability correlates with levels of stress and burden, and with the type of coping strategy used by family caregivers.

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