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South Africa, South Africa, 2 Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
South African and Australian students are exposed to differing life stressors, partly because of
distinctive cultural and societal dynamics. One major dissimilarity is exposure to violence and
crime by South Africans, which in turn impacts on the range and magnitude of their life stressors.
This study explored the similarities and differences between both countries in the type and number
of stressful events each student was exposed to over the course of one year, and the methods used
by students in each country to cope with stress. Coping with high stress is associated with both
individual differences constructs and culture-specific variables.
4130.8 Chinese traditionality/modernity: The source of interdependent self and independent self?
Liwei Zhang, Beijing Sport University, China
Based on Markus and Kitayama’s self-construal theory and Yang’s modernization theory, it was
hypothesized that stronger endorsement of Chinese modernity would correlate to stronger
endorsement of independent self whereas stronger endorsement of Chinese traditionality would
correlate to stronger endorsement of interdependent self. Participants were 1347 Chinese. Results
indicated that Chinese traditionality dimensions such as submission to authority/ancestral worship,
filial piety and conservation/endurance predicted social orientation and Chinese modernity
dimensions such as egalitarianism/open-mindedness, social isolation/self-reliance and
optimism/assertiveness predicted individual orientation. However, both people with stronger
social orientation and people with stronger individual orientation endorsed Chinese modernity
values such as sex equality.
4131 ORAL
Clinical/counseling psychology
Chair: Ibrahim Kira, USA
4131.1 Cumulative trauma disorder: A new scale for complex PTSD, Ibrahim Kira, ACCESS
Community Mental Health and Research Center, USA
Two studies using the 15 items new scale that measure the effects of cumulative trauma. First
study conducted on mental health clinic sample of 286 patients, and the second study was
conducted on 501community sample of Iraqi refugees. Iraqi refugees suffered from cumulative
trauma that may include torture. Scales have been used to measure cumulative trauma, torture,
PTSD as well demographics and other relevant variables. Item analysis found high item Alpha
reliabilities (ranged from .82 to .89), scale alpha reliabilities ranged from .78- .93. Factor analysis
found four factors: Executive function deficits, suicidality, dissociation, and depression/ anxiety
syndrome.
4131.2 Clinical and psychological profile of Mexican outpatients with eating disorders, Antonio
Tena, Dominique Peschard, Universidad Iberoamericana. Ciudad De Mexico
The present research is sought to determine the existence of a characteristic clinical and
psychological profile of Mexican outpatients that attend treatment for eating disorders. This
research claims to show the fact that the instruments to use: EDI-2 (Eating Disorders Inventory-2),
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