Work Stress and Coping Among Professionals (Social Sciences in Asia, 11) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004154809 ISBN 13: 9789004154803

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2007

Synopsis

Based on a large-scale survey, indepth interviews and comparative analyses, this book offers deep analyses of work stress and coping among seven professional groups: doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, police officers, and life insurance agents. The book makes practical recommendations for personal, organizational and societal intervention.

About this title

About the Author:

CHAN Kwok-bun, Ph.D. (1978) in sociology from York University, Canada, is Head and Chair Professor of Sociology, and Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published many articles on stress, coping, and mental health in international scholarly journals, including Social Science and Medicine, Asian Journal of Social Science, Singapore Medical Journal, Chinese Journal of Mental Health, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Journal of Developing Societies. Routledge published in 2005 his two new books: Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business, and Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism. Both books examine the identities and mental health of migrants and immigrants. Professor Chan is currently doing a study of the mental health and coping of returnees from the west now living and working in Hong Kong.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9004154809
• ISBN 13: 9789004154803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Kwok-bun Chan