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Article: Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping
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- Canadian Psychology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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PAUL T.P. WONG and LILIAN C.J. WONG (Eds.) Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping New York: Springer, 2006, 636 pages (ISBN: 0-387-26236-9, C$89.95 Hardcover)
Reviewed by ANDREW G. RYDER, DONALD H. WATANABE, and ANGELA J. RING
A major, but unavoidable, disadvantage to cross-cultural psychological research is its complexity. Human nature allows for an incredible range of psychological and cultural diversity; combining these two domains leads to a bewildering array of concepts, theories, hypotheses, and research findings. It is easy for us to secretly envy at times our colleagues who can act as though the universality of their constructs is assumed beyond question. At the ...