Coping strategies | |
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Developing/drawing on skills | Living with emotional state |
• Advancing own education | • Living with emotional distress |
• Learning language | • Living with emotional wellbeing |
• Managing resources strategically | |
• Parenting | Using relational strategies (formal and informal) |
• Developing/maintaining relationships | |
Seeking health care | • Helping others |
• Seeking formal health care | • Interacting with professional staff |
• Seeking informal healthcare | • Social networking |
• Venting | |
Using internal strategies | Drawing on other strategies |
• Appreciating the Canadian social context | • Obtaining permanent residency (PR) |
• Attending church | • Preserving one’s culture |
• Dealing with a difficulty on your own | • Seeking advice/information |
• Improving self-awareness | • Seeking tangible resources |
• Praying | |
• Withdrawing | |
Coping resources | |
Dispositional | Skills |
• Attitude towards others | • Child behaviour management skills |
• Being discerning | • Information-seeking abilities |
• Determination | • Host country language |
• Optimism | |
• Prior experience | Social |
• Self confidence | • Friendship |
• Spirituality/faith/God | • Kinship Perception of belonging |
• Vigilance | • Perception of belonging |
Health | Tangible resources |
• Emotional health | • Education |
• Physical health | • Employment |
• Food/housing/money/clothing/car | |
• Permanent resident status/citizenship |