Noh S, Avison W R
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
J Health Soc Behav. 1996 Jun;37(2):192-206.
The stress process paradigm is one of the most widely held perspectives in the sociology of mental health. While this model has been applied to a large number of research problems, relatively little work has examined whether the paradigm can assist in understanding the link between socially induced stressors and their consequences for the mental health of immigrants. In this paper, we employ a stress process formulation to examine the interplay among stressors, psychological and social resources, and psychological distress among a large sample of Korean immigrants living in Toronto, Canada. Data from a longitudinal study of over 600 respondents indicate that the stress process paradigm provides a useful perspective for understanding how chronic stressors associated with the immigration experience manifest themselves in psychological distress. Our results suggest that social and psychological resources have important deterrent effects on the experience of stressors and their subsequent distressful consequences. Ethnic social support and mastery are especially important factors in this process.
压力过程范式是心理健康社会学中最广泛持有的观点之一。虽然该模型已应用于大量研究问题，但相对较少的研究探讨了该范式是否有助于理解社会诱发的压力源及其对移民心理健康的影响之间的联系。在本文中，我们采用压力过程公式来研究居住在加拿大多伦多的大量韩国移民样本中压力源、心理和社会资源以及心理困扰之间的相互作用。来自对600多名受访者的纵向研究数据表明，压力过程范式为理解与移民经历相关的慢性压力源如何在心理困扰中表现出来提供了一个有用的视角。我们的结果表明，社会和心理资源对压力源的体验及其随后的困扰后果具有重要的抑制作用。种族社会支持和掌控感是这一过程中特别重要的因素。
