Moving Forward: Addressing stress, positive resources, and gender

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dc.contributor.advisorMiller, Matthew J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorYang, Minjien_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-10T05:34:26Z
dc.date.available2012-07-10T05:34:26Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examined a comprehensive stress-buffering model in a sample of 200 college students. Specifically, this study looked at social support and optimism as moderators between different types of stress and psychological health while controlling for gender given prior research that has demonstrated gender differences among the study constructs. Hierarchical regression analyses found that social support, but not optimism, worked as a significant moderator between different stressors, developmental challenge stress, time pressure stress, and social mistreatment stress, and psychological health. Supplemental analyses found in an independent samples t-test analysis that female college students had higher mean levels of time pressure stress than male college students. An extensive literature review of the study constructs including conceptual and methodological information and areas of improvement are delineated. Limitations of this study as well as future directions in research and clinical practice are also included.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12789
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcollege studentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledoptimismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpsychological healthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial supporten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledstressen_US
dc.titleMoving Forward: Addressing stress, positive resources, and genderen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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