| Dedication | 第1-10页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第10-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-14页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第17-30页 |
| ·Background to the study | 第17-19页 |
| ·Research problem, hypotheses, and research questions | 第19-22页 |
| ·Research hypotheses and Questions | 第21-22页 |
| ·Justification for the research | 第22-25页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第25-27页 |
| ·Research outline | 第27-28页 |
| ·Operational definitions of terms | 第28-29页 |
| ·Delimitations of scope and key assumptions | 第29页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第29-30页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第30-73页 |
| ·Introduction | 第30页 |
| ·The concept of culture | 第30-31页 |
| ·Cultural variations in stress and coping | 第31-39页 |
| ·African Culture | 第32-34页 |
| ·Japanese Culture | 第34-37页 |
| ·Western Culture | 第37-39页 |
| ·History of theories of stress | 第39-47页 |
| ·The Yerkes-Dodson law | 第40页 |
| ·Walter Cannon: Fight or flight | 第40-41页 |
| ·Hans Selye: The general adaptation syndrome | 第41-42页 |
| ·Holmes and Rahe: stress and life events | 第42页 |
| ·Maddi and Kodasa: theory of hardiness and stress resistance | 第42-43页 |
| ·Friedman and Roseman: Type A behaviour and the stress | 第43-44页 |
| ·Seligman: Stress and learned helplessness | 第44页 |
| ·Social factors and stress | 第44-45页 |
| ·Cognitive interpretation of stressors | 第45-46页 |
| ·Lazarus and Folkman: Stress as a dynamic transactional coping process | 第46-47页 |
| ·Roots of coping in psychology | 第47-51页 |
| ·Psychodynamic concept of coping | 第47-49页 |
| ·Appraisal/Transactional Processes | 第49-50页 |
| ·Type A Behaviour | 第50-51页 |
| ·Coping with stress: Research outcomes | 第51-59页 |
| ·Personality and the coping process | 第51-53页 |
| ·Emotional Intelligence and the coping process | 第53-56页 |
| ·Optimism/Pessimism and coping process | 第56-58页 |
| ·Hope and Cope | 第58-59页 |
| ·Differences in coping and cultural adaptation | 第59-67页 |
| ·Differences in perceiving stressors | 第67-70页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第73-100页 |
| ·Introduction | 第73页 |
| ·Importance of cross-cultural studies | 第73-74页 |
| ·Justification for the research methodology | 第74-78页 |
| ·Research method | 第78-100页 |
| ·Subjects | 第82-86页 |
| ·Measurement instruments | 第86-90页 |
| ·Administration of measurement instruments | 第90-92页 |
| ·Scoring and data processing | 第92-100页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis and Results | 第100-122页 |
| ·Introduction | 第100页 |
| ·Profile of the subjects | 第100-101页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 1 and research question 1 | 第101-104页 |
| ·Research question 2 | 第104-105页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 2 | 第105-108页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 3 | 第108-118页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 4 | 第118-122页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion of the results | 第122-147页 |
| ·Introduction | 第122-123页 |
| ·Conclusions about research hypotheses and questions | 第123-137页 |
| ·Research question 1: Nature of stress among overseas students in Chinese universities | 第123-126页 |
| ·Research question 2: sources of high stress as perceived by overseas students in China | 第126-129页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 1: Cultural differences in perceiving stressors in Chinese universities | 第129-130页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 2: gender differences in perceiving stressors in Chinese universities | 第130-133页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 3: cultural differences between African, Japanese, and Western students in coping with stress in China | 第133-136页 |
| ·Research hypothesis 4: differences in coping with study abroad stress between male and female overseas students in China | 第136-137页 |
| ·Conclusion about the research problem | 第137-139页 |
| ·Implication for theory | 第139-142页 |
| ·Implication for policy and practice | 第142-144页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第144-145页 |
| ·Implication for further research | 第145-147页 |
| Published articles | 第147-148页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第148-150页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第150-153页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第153-156页 |
| Bibliography | 第156-166页 |
