Wen H Kuo
Biographic Data
| ID | 196601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wen H Kuo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wen H |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuo |
| SIGNATURE | KUO W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9881-4605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mediating Effects of Mindfulness Compassion-based Peer Counseling Program for Breast Cancer Survivors: From Mindfulness, Compassion to Others to Depression Reduction
Enhancing mindfulness and compassionate processes in peer-counselor training serve a central role in improving anxiety and functional quality of life, thereby alleviating depressive symptoms in breast cancer survivors
Sexual behaviour and self‐reported sexually transmitted diseases (STDs): Comparison between White and Chinese American young people
This study examined the sexual behaviour and self-reported incidence of STDs of White and Chinese American young people in a nationally representative US sample. 10,419 White and 340 self-identified Chinese American young people in grade 7 through 12 were selected from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Prevalence of sex initiation, ever having casual sex partners, number of lifetime sex partners, age of first sexual intercours…
Depressive Symptoms in the Immediate Postpartum Period Among Hispanic Women in Three U.S. Cities
STD care: Variations in clinical care associated with provider sex, patient sex, patients’ self-reported symptoms or high-risk behaviors, partner STD history
Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change
Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents
The linkage between family structure, language, and ethnic identity is investigated to find out the effects of two major socialization mechanisms: one, family cultural transmission, and the other, structural symbolic interaction. The data on Chinese-American children indicates that family language proficiency is retained mainly through parental teaching; thus, first-born children and those with fewer siblings were favored. The construction of eth…
Democratization and the Political Economy of Taiwan
Coping with racial discrimination: The case of Asian Americans
Self-reported incidence of racial discrimination was investigated among four Asian-American groups to explore their magnitude and the ways of coping with the discrimination episodes. The samples showed that among the two modes of coping - problem-focused or emotion-focused coping - a majority of Asian Americans has utilized the latter. Reasons of adopting these coping strategies were further explored for their determinants. Intergroup differences…
Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China
Economic Reforms and Urban Development in China
M ANY URBAN STUDIES of state socialist societies such as Hungary or Poland have found that the Stalinist model of economic development has been unconducive to urban development.' Misztal and Misztal noted, for example, that the Polish government's heavy-industry-oriented development policy created intense urban discontent in smaller places that were not designated as industrial development sites, and even stifled the urban development in cities t…
Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Social Networking, Hardiness and Immigrant's Mental Health
Previous investigations of immigrant mental hospitalization rates have accumulated inconclusive evidence in regard to native-foreign differentials. We attempt to examine factors that protect voluntary immigrants from psychological impairment. Unlike existing studies, which tend to regard immigrants as merely reactive to stressful life changes accompanying immigration, we assume immigration can be used as a vehicle for personal advancement. We hyp…
Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World
Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese-Americans
A sample of Chinese-Americans in the District of Columbia was drawn to examine the relationship between the locus of control, the personality factor, and two indices of symptoms of psychological distress. The findings indicated that the externals scored higher on symptomatology than did the internals. A multivariate analysis further compared the predictive utility of locus of control with other determinants of psychiatric symptoms, i.e., sex, mar…
Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone, Wen Kuo, Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 108-119
On the Study of Asian-Americans: Its Current State and Agenda
In order to investigate the extent and scope of the Asian-American's integration into American society the majority of researchers have applied an assimilation perspective. This perspective has generated some useful research documenting various aspects of integration, but it has serious theoretical limitations. This paper addresses three specific weaknesses of current Asian-American assimilation studies and shows that to improve these shortcoming…
Immigrant/Minority Status and Alienation
Seeking to clarify the relationship between immigrant/minority status and alienation, the theoretical elements of immigrant/minority status were first examined. Data gathered from a sample of Chinese-Americans was then used in a causal analysis incorporating these minority and immigrant characteristics as predictors of alienation. The data showed that the alienation of the Chinese-American was not uniformly and directly related to his minority an…
Assimilation of Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C
Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C. were studied to show their present assimilation into American society. Two contradictory hypotheses on the pace of assimilation of Chinese-Americans were tested. We found that higher socioeconomic attainment had an insignificant effect on the Chinese-American's centrifugal tendencies when the effects of education were controlled. This finding, therefore, contradicts the notion that the achievement of occupat…
Theories of migration and mental health: An empirical testing on Chinese-Americans
Mayoral Influence in Urban Policy Making
Political behavior of big-city mayors in community policy making was examined to explore its impact on decision making. The argument that mayors are weak and act only as brokers among local interests was tested with data collected from 93 northern American cities. A comparison of community programs that were adopted with those that were rejected revealed that the probability of adoption was directly related to how actively the mayor campaigned on…
Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone, Wen Kuo, Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 108-119
Social Networking, Hardiness and Immigrant's Mental Health
Previous investigations of immigrant mental hospitalization rates have accumulated inconclusive evidence in regard to native-foreign differentials. We attempt to examine factors that protect voluntary immigrants from psychological impairment. Unlike existing studies, which tend to regard immigrants as merely reactive to stressful life changes accompanying immigration, we assume immigration can be used as a vehicle for personal advancement. We hyp…
Coping with racial discrimination: The case of Asian Americans
Self-reported incidence of racial discrimination was investigated among four Asian-American groups to explore their magnitude and the ways of coping with the discrimination episodes. The samples showed that among the two modes of coping - problem-focused or emotion-focused coping - a majority of Asian Americans has utilized the latter. Reasons of adopting these coping strategies were further explored for their determinants. Intergroup differences…
Theories of migration and mental health: An empirical testing on Chinese-Americans
Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents
The linkage between family structure, language, and ethnic identity is investigated to find out the effects of two major socialization mechanisms: one, family cultural transmission, and the other, structural symbolic interaction. The data on Chinese-American children indicates that family language proficiency is retained mainly through parental teaching; thus, first-born children and those with fewer siblings were favored. The construction of eth…
Assimilation of Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C
Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C. were studied to show their present assimilation into American society. Two contradictory hypotheses on the pace of assimilation of Chinese-Americans were tested. We found that higher socioeconomic attainment had an insignificant effect on the Chinese-American's centrifugal tendencies when the effects of education were controlled. This finding, therefore, contradicts the notion that the achievement of occupat…
Mayoral Influence in Urban Policy Making
Political behavior of big-city mayors in community policy making was examined to explore its impact on decision making. The argument that mayors are weak and act only as brokers among local interests was tested with data collected from 93 northern American cities. A comparison of community programs that were adopted with those that were rejected revealed that the probability of adoption was directly related to how actively the mayor campaigned on…
On the Study of Asian-Americans: Its Current State and Agenda
In order to investigate the extent and scope of the Asian-American's integration into American society the majority of researchers have applied an assimilation perspective. This perspective has generated some useful research documenting various aspects of integration, but it has serious theoretical limitations. This paper addresses three specific weaknesses of current Asian-American assimilation studies and shows that to improve these shortcoming…
Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese-Americans
A sample of Chinese-Americans in the District of Columbia was drawn to examine the relationship between the locus of control, the personality factor, and two indices of symptoms of psychological distress. The findings indicated that the externals scored higher on symptomatology than did the internals. A multivariate analysis further compared the predictive utility of locus of control with other determinants of psychiatric symptoms, i.e., sex, mar…
Democratization and the Political Economy of Taiwan
Economic Reforms and Urban Development in China
M ANY URBAN STUDIES of state socialist societies such as Hungary or Poland have found that the Stalinist model of economic development has been unconducive to urban development.' Misztal and Misztal noted, for example, that the Polish government's heavy-industry-oriented development policy created intense urban discontent in smaller places that were not designated as industrial development sites, and even stifled the urban development in cities t…
Immigrant/Minority Status and Alienation
Seeking to clarify the relationship between immigrant/minority status and alienation, the theoretical elements of immigrant/minority status were first examined. Data gathered from a sample of Chinese-Americans was then used in a causal analysis incorporating these minority and immigrant characteristics as predictors of alienation. The data showed that the alienation of the Chinese-American was not uniformly and directly related to his minority an…
Mayoral Influence in Urban Policy Making
Political behavior of big-city mayors in community policy making was examined to explore its impact on decision making. The argument that mayors are weak and act only as brokers among local interests was tested with data collected from 93 northern American cities. A comparison of community programs that were adopted with those that were rejected revealed that the probability of adoption was directly related to how actively the mayor campaigned on…
Theories of migration and mental health: An empirical testing on Chinese-Americans
Assimilation of Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C
Chinese-Americans in Washington, D. C. were studied to show their present assimilation into American society. Two contradictory hypotheses on the pace of assimilation of Chinese-Americans were tested. We found that higher socioeconomic attainment had an insignificant effect on the Chinese-American's centrifugal tendencies when the effects of education were controlled. This finding, therefore, contradicts the notion that the achievement of occupat…
Immigrant/Minority Status and Alienation
Seeking to clarify the relationship between immigrant/minority status and alienation, the theoretical elements of immigrant/minority status were first examined. Data gathered from a sample of Chinese-Americans was then used in a causal analysis incorporating these minority and immigrant characteristics as predictors of alienation. The data showed that the alienation of the Chinese-American was not uniformly and directly related to his minority an…
Locus of Control and Symptoms of Psychological Distress Among Chinese-Americans
A sample of Chinese-Americans in the District of Columbia was drawn to examine the relationship between the locus of control, the personality factor, and two indices of symptoms of psychological distress. The findings indicated that the externals scored higher on symptomatology than did the internals. A multivariate analysis further compared the predictive utility of locus of control with other determinants of psychiatric symptoms, i.e., sex, mar…
Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test
Nan Lin, Walter M. Ensel, Ronald S. Simeone, Wen Kuo, Social Support, Stressful Life Events, and Illness: A Model and an Empirical Test, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1979), pp. 108-119
On the Study of Asian-Americans: Its Current State and Agenda
In order to investigate the extent and scope of the Asian-American's integration into American society the majority of researchers have applied an assimilation perspective. This perspective has generated some useful research documenting various aspects of integration, but it has serious theoretical limitations. This paper addresses three specific weaknesses of current Asian-American assimilation studies and shows that to improve these shortcoming…
Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World
Social Networking, Hardiness and Immigrant's Mental Health
Previous investigations of immigrant mental hospitalization rates have accumulated inconclusive evidence in regard to native-foreign differentials. We attempt to examine factors that protect voluntary immigrants from psychological impairment. Unlike existing studies, which tend to regard immigrants as merely reactive to stressful life changes accompanying immigration, we assume immigration can be used as a vehicle for personal advancement. We hyp…
Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China
Economic Reforms and Urban Development in China
M ANY URBAN STUDIES of state socialist societies such as Hungary or Poland have found that the Stalinist model of economic development has been unconducive to urban development.' Misztal and Misztal noted, for example, that the Polish government's heavy-industry-oriented development policy created intense urban discontent in smaller places that were not designated as industrial development sites, and even stifled the urban development in cities t…
Coping with racial discrimination: The case of Asian Americans
Self-reported incidence of racial discrimination was investigated among four Asian-American groups to explore their magnitude and the ways of coping with the discrimination episodes. The samples showed that among the two modes of coping - problem-focused or emotion-focused coping - a majority of Asian Americans has utilized the latter. Reasons of adopting these coping strategies were further explored for their determinants. Intergroup differences…
Democratization and the Political Economy of Taiwan
Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change
Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents
The linkage between family structure, language, and ethnic identity is investigated to find out the effects of two major socialization mechanisms: one, family cultural transmission, and the other, structural symbolic interaction. The data on Chinese-American children indicates that family language proficiency is retained mainly through parental teaching; thus, first-born children and those with fewer siblings were favored. The construction of eth…
Depressive Symptoms in the Immediate Postpartum Period Among Hispanic Women in Three U.S. Cities
STD care: Variations in clinical care associated with provider sex, patient sex, patients’ self-reported symptoms or high-risk behaviors, partner STD history
Sexual behaviour and self‐reported sexually transmitted diseases (STDs): Comparison between White and Chinese American young people
This study examined the sexual behaviour and self-reported incidence of STDs of White and Chinese American young people in a nationally representative US sample. 10,419 White and 340 self-identified Chinese American young people in grade 7 through 12 were selected from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Prevalence of sex initiation, ever having casual sex partners, number of lifetime sex partners, age of first sexual intercours…
Mediating Effects of Mindfulness Compassion-based Peer Counseling Program for Breast Cancer Survivors: From Mindfulness, Compassion to Others to Depression Reduction
Enhancing mindfulness and compassionate processes in peer-counselor training serve a central role in improving anxiety and functional quality of life, thereby alleviating depressive symptoms in breast cancer survivors
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works)