From a group of six people in 1830 to a worldwide congregation of about fourteen million members in 2012, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church in public and in media coverage, has grown from an insignificant religious group from New York to a globally recognized and organized religious group. The Church��s congregation consists of people from different gender, class, racial, ethnic, cultural, and national backgrounds. With this diversity among its members, the Church has to find ways to cope with multiple challenges. Among all of the challenges facing Church leaders and members, one of the most prevalent topics of debate throughout the years concerns the status of Mormon women. Many of these debates run in tandem with issues associated with the various waves of feminist movements in the West. Mormon women have been seen as being oppressed by the patriarchal church organization. Many feminists, including feminists of Mormon faith, challenged such oppression and fought for their rights including the right to hold the priesthood and equal position in the Church organization. However, these voices are, for the most part, limited to Caucasian Mormon women. Through analysis of interviews with Hong Kong Chinese Mormon women, this study recognizes previously unheard or marginalized voices that shed light on new aspects of these debates. / published_or_final_version / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Nursing Studies / Master / Master of Nursing in Advanced Practice

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex phenomenon of abusive partners’ behavior and is a serious public health problem that affects women’s health. It includes physical assaults, psychological aggressions, sexual abuse, and controlling behavior. Over the years, IPV was thought to be associated with chronic psychological stress. Although Chinese women have been shown using a variety of strategies to appraise, as well as cope with their abuse experience, not much is known about the relationships among psychological stress, appraisal of IPV as a stressor, coping strategies and emotional states in abused Chinese women. This study aimed (a) to differentiate women’s cognitive appraisal of IPV as a “threat” or a “challenge”; (b) to examine the relationship among women’s cognitive appraisals, coping strategies and emotional states; (c) to investigate the effect of cognitive appraisal and coping strategies on the relationship between IPV severity and emotional states. A cross-sectional, quantitative study was conducted. A total of 200 abused and 100 non-abused community-dwelling Chinese women aged 18 or above were recruited via poster advertisements in community centers and domestic violence support agencies in Hong Kong for this study. Participants were interviewed using a questionnaire to elicit their violence experience, cognitive appraisal, coping strategies, psychosocial readiness, social stress, self-efficacy and emotional states. Among the abused women group, 23.3% and 34.7% of them appraised IPV as a “threat” and “challenge” respectively, while 11.4% reported the co-existence of “threat” and “challenge” appraisal. Although abused women used a variety of coping strategies to cope with partner’ abusive behavior, however, their efforts were perceived as somewhat helpful. A proposed model, conceptualized from the transactional model of stress and coping, the stress process model and the psychosocial readiness model, was tested using structural equation modeling. It revealed that violence severity had a significant impact on women’s adaptational outcomes, i.e. emotional states in terms of psychological symptoms and distress intensity, and self-efficacy. This relationship was significantly mediated by cognitive appraisal and coping strategies. The psychosocial readiness of abused women was also found as a crucial mediator in the relationship of violence severity and coping strategies. Besides, a significant indirect effect of social stress on the relationship between IPV severity and adaptational outcomes was observed. Furthermore, financial difficulties had a significant effect on cognitive appraisal of abused women. It indicated that an increase in financial difficulties therefore increased the threat appraisal of abused women and in turns affecting their coping strategies and adaptational outcomes. However, immigration status had no effect on cognitive appraisal, psychosocial readiness, coping strategies social stress and outcomes among Chinese abused women. This study identified the mediating effects of cognitive appraisal and coping strategies on abused women’s self-efficacy and emotional states. The findings of this study advanced the current knowledge of cognitive appraisal and coping in women survivors of IPV. Intervention focus on coping may be effective in buffering the violence-related psychological stress and, special attention shall be paid to the psychosocial readiness of abused Chinese women to facilitate the effectiveness of coping strategies. / published_or_final_version / Nursing Studies / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Nursing Studies / Master / Master of Nursing in Advanced Practice

published_or_final_version / Sociology / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

冼韻姬. / "2004年7月". / "性別研究及傳播學課程". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2004. / 附參考文獻. / 附中英文摘要. / "2004 nian 7 yue". / "Xing bie yan jiu ji chuan bo xue ke cheng". / Xian Yunji. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. / Fu can kao wen xian. / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 論文摘要 / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1-7 / Chapter ´Ø --- 硏究範圍 / Chapter ´Ø --- 本土性別文化議題 / Chapter ´Ø --- 硏究目的及重要性 / Chapter ´Ø --- 論文結構 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻回顧 --- p.8-27 / Chapter ´Ø --- 社會建構主義 / Chapter ´Ø --- 語言構建性別 / Chapter ´Ø --- 隱藏的弱勢 / Chapter ´Ø --- 論述定義 / Chapter ´Ø --- 論述理論 / Chapter ´Ø --- 論述變革 / Chapter 第三章 --- 硏究設計 --- p.28-35 / Chapter ´Ø --- 設計原則 / Chapter ´Ø --- 抽樣原則 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶用語系譜 / Chapter ´Ø --- 電視論述 / Chapter ´Ø --- 日常生活論述 / Chapter 第四章 --- 分析 / 起源 --- p.36-42 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的起源 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的使用方式 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的意味 / 隱沒 --- p.43-73 / Chapter ´Ø --- 隱沒於經濟發展 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的脫節生活 / Chapter ´Ø --- 隱沒於居住空間 / Chapter ´Ø --- 電視的文化對焦 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的替身 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的典型共相 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶「騎呢化」 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶瑣碎化 / Chapter ´Ø --- 電視文本在生活 / Chapter ´Ø --- 原始師奶 / Chapter ´Ø --- 八婆師奶 / Chapter ´Ø --- 隱形師奶 / 再現 --- p.74-100 / Chapter ´Ø --- 再現的年代脈絡 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的舊調再現 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶的重生？ / Chapter ´Ø --- 論述迴響 / Chapter ´Ø --- 論述蛻變 / Chapter ´Ø --- 誇越性別 / Chapter ´Ø --- 誇越年齡 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶與女強人 / Chapter ´Ø --- 日常裡的師奶仔 / Chapter ´Ø --- 生活中的幸福師奶 / Chapter ´Ø --- 顛覆本錢 / Chapter 第五章 --- 總結：師奶的約束與解放 --- p.101-111 / Chapter ´Ø --- 師奶論述的運作 / Chapter ´Ø --- 隱現的性別價値 / Chapter ´Ø --- 再現的論述解放 / Chapter ´Ø --- 弱勢電視與多元性別 / Chapter ´Ø --- 約束與解放 / 參考資料 / 附錄 / Chapter 一、 --- 被訪者資料 / Chapter 二、 --- 人口統計資料 / Chapter 三、 --- 電視文本硏究資料

published_or_final_version / Nursing Studies / Master / Master of Nursing in Advanced Practice

published_or_final_version / Medical Sciences / Master / Master of Medical Sciences

published_or_final_version / Medical Sciences / Master / Master of Medical Sciences