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Item Secondary Traumatic Stress, Financial Stress, and the Role of Coping in Understanding Southeast Asian American Mental Health(2019) Truong, Nancy Nguyen; Miller, Matthew J; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This study advances the literature by jointly examining two stressors (secondary traumatic stress and financial stress) hypothesized to impact the mental health of the Southeast Asian American (SEAA) community and focused on the experiences of generational stress with SEAAs. This study also examined how coping moderated the relationship between stress and mental health. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used to test whether secondary traumatic stress, financial stress, direct and indirect coping (entered in Step 1), and the interactions between stress and coping (entered in Step 2) predicted mental health. Participants included 134 self-identified 1.5-generation and second-generation SEAA adults who completed an online survey. Consistent with emerging research, increased financial stress and secondary traumatic stress significantly predicted poorer mental health. Further, indirect coping significantly predicted poorer mental health. Contrary to expectations, none of the moderation effects were significant. Post-hoc analyses were also conducted. Limitations and implications for future research and practice are addressed.Item Predictors of Sense of Belonging for Students with Psychological Conditions(2013) Mackie, Michele Matteo; Strein, William; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The purpose of this study was to develop a portrait of students with psychological conditions, to determine the predictors of sense of belonging for these students, and to draw comparisons between the collegiate experiences of students with, and those without, psychological conditions. Using data from the 2009 Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, a sample of students who self-reported having a psychological condition and a randomly selected comparative sample of students without psychological conditions were drawn. Descriptive statistics were used to develop a portrait of students with psychological conditions relative to gender, class standing, academic performance, and co-curricular student involvement. Chi-square tests for independence and independent groups t-tests were used to make comparisons between students with psychological conditions and those who did not report having a psychological condition. Using a hierarchical multiple regression, framed in Astin's (1993) I-E-O model, predictors of sense of belonging were identified for students with psychological conditions and the comparative sample. Equality of beta coefficient testing was conducted to determine if the variables that predict sense of belonging for students who self-reported a psychological condition differed significantly from the predictors of sense of belonging for the comparative sample. Results indicated that the distribution of students with psychological conditions differed significantly across categories related to gender, class standing, college GPA, and involvement in specific types of co-curricular activities. Additionally, students who self-reported a psychological condition reported lower perceptions of sense of belonging compared to those who did not. The regression analyses and equality of beta coefficient testing revealed that there are no significant differences between the variables that predict sense of belonging for students with psychological conditions and the comparative sample. Implications for practice and directions for future research emphasize the need for better understanding the issue of college student mental health and developing interventions that can be applied in and outside of the classroom to assist students with psychological conditions in collegiate success.Item Self-compassion, hope, and well-being of women experiencing primary and secondary infertility: An application of the biopsychosocial model(2009) Raque-Bogdan, Trisha Lynn; Hoffman, Mary Ann; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Infertility is experienced by 10% of couples in the United States. This study examined the well-being of 119 women experiencing primary infertility and 53 women experiencing secondary infertility. Utilizing the biopsychosocial model, this study explored the biological variable of infertility type; the psychological variables of self-compassion, hope, subjective well-being, and fertility-related stress; and the social variable of online support group use. Data were collected using an online survey and correlations and regression analyses were run to assess for relationships between the variables of interest and for moderation and mediation. No significant differences were found in the reported levels of subjective well-being or fertility-related stress in the two groups of women. Yet the type of infertility moderated the relationship between hope and fertility-related stress and for women with primary infertility, self-compassion mediated the relationship between hope and positive affect and negative affect.