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Help-Seeking in Suffering

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This chapter examines the help-seeking behaviors of the two Yi communities. Religious communities that used to serve as buffers against stressors for Yi people were undermined for a period of time in China. Hence the research team approached the religious leaders in focus group interviews, to inquire about the availability of various resources in their respective religious traditions. Thematic analysis of the interviews, on help-seeking behaviors in time of suffering, revealed that strong-ties and weak-ties are resources differentially utilized by the two Yi communities. Results from the psycho-linguistic analysis suggested that Yi-Bimo tended to seek help from strong-ties, and depend on the manipulation of external resources in time of suffering, whereas Yi-Christians drew their strength from both church members and family, as well as internal resources such as faith and prayer.

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  1. School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

    Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting

  2. Rochester, New York, USA

    Louise Sundararajan

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Ting, R.SK., Sundararajan, L. (2018). Help-Seeking in Suffering. In: Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities. Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66059-2_4

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