ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

PART 1

Health Locus of Control
Psychosomaticism
Psychosomaticism and Psychoimmunology
HLC and Psychosomaticism

PART 2

Health Reality Models
The (Cultural) Etiology of Illness
Mode of Acculturation
Well-Being and Mode of Acculturation
Mode of Acculturation and HLC

METHODS

Participants
Materials
Design
Procedure

RESULTS

DISCUSSION

Discussion of Results
Confluence Approach
Cultural Competence
Creativity Amidst Disillusionment
Stress in the 90's
Regaining Control
When Externality is Better
Future Studies

Methods

Procedure

Participants were recruited via folder set up in the main lobby of the Psychology Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Subjects were offered research credits in exchange for their participation, used in some psychology classes as a means of extra credit. Participants who arrived for the study were administered an informed consent form (Appendix B). Participants then filled out the three questionnaires being used in this study (see Materials) in addition to a brief demographics questionnaire (Appendix A). Once completed, forms were collected separately and face down, and participants received a debriefing form (Appendix C) and their receipt for credit.

In addition, a letter was sent out to all ethnic clubs and organizations on campus, academic and non-academic, requesting volunteers for this study. No responses were obtained from this source.