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KEY woms-cultural differences, individualism, cognitivism, free will, Indian society. Each culture produces its own unique sets of stressors. Cultures vary not merely in terms of their physical, economic, and social environments, but also in terms of their values and ideology. Values are the currently held normative expectations of social and moral conduct. There is an obvious interactive process between values and behaviour. And since certain values are culture-specific, it follows that certain behaviours are also culture-specific. Therefore certain stressors too are culture-specific. Consequently, one would expect to find differences between cultures in stress levels, reactions to stress and the coping mechanisms employed. Here, we shall focus on the major parameters or factors which distinguish western cultures from eastern cultures, or more specifically, British culture from Indian culture. Three interrelated factors have been hypothesized as below:

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Author

Pittu Laungani

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0748-8386)

Published

1993

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)