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Paul T. P. Wong

January 30, 2023

Paul T. P. Wong is a Canadian clinical psychologist[1] and professor. His research career has gone through four stages, with significant contributions in each stage: learning theory, social cognition, existential psychology, and positive psychology. He is most known for his integrative work on death acceptance,[2] meaning therapy,[3] and second wave positive psychology (PP 2.0).[4] He has been elected as a fellow for both the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association.

Paul T. P. Wong

Ph.D.
王载宝
Wong speaking at the Lotus Foundation in Taiwan, 2013
PronunciationWáng Zàibǎo
BornApril 1, 1937 (1937-04) (age 85)
Tianjin, China
NationalityCanadian
EducationPh.D., University of Toronto, 1970
Occupations
  • President, Meaning-Centered Counselling Institute Inc.
  • Adjunct Professor, Saybrook University
  • Professor Emeritus, Trent University
  • Professor Emeritus, Trinity Western University
OrganizationInternational Network on Personal Meaning
Known for
  • Meaning Therapy
  • Second Wave Positive Psychology
SpouseLilian C. J. Wong
Children2
Websitewww.drpaulwong.com

Wong is the Founder and President of the International Network on Personal Meaning[5] and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy. With more than 300 publications in journals and book chapters, his major books are the two editions of The Human Quest for Meaning: A Handbook of Psychological Research and Clinical Applications (1998) and The Human Quest for Meaning: Theories, Research, and Applications (2012), as well as The Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping (2006).

Wong is currently adjunct professor at Saybrook University[6] and Professor Emeritus of Trent University[7] and Trinity Western University.[8] At the latter, he was the Founding Director of the Graduate Counselling Psychology Program. He also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, York University, and the Graduate Division of the University of Toronto.

Personal life

Wong was born in Tianjin, China in 1937 and migrated to Hong Kong in 1948. He came to Canada as an international student in 1961, earning his B.Th. from the Toronto Bible College (now Tyndale University College and Seminary) in 1964 and B.A. in Honours Psychology from Carleton University in 1967. In 1970, he earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Toronto.

Wong's career straddles two domains: psychology and Christian ministry. He first served as the Founding Pastor of the Chinese Gospel Church in Toronto in the early 1960s, and then started the Peterborough Chinese Christian Fellowship in the 1970s while teaching at Trent University. He was involved in resettling the boat people in the 1980s. Afterward, he founded the graduate program in counselling psychology at Trinity Western University in the early 1990s. During his tenure, he started a neighbours-together program and received a Cultural Harmony Award from VanCity for his community outreach.[9]

Research

Wong's research career has covered several domains in psychology: learning theory, social cognition, existential psychology, and positive psychology.

Learning theory

Wong's first decade of research in the area of animal learning focused on how to develop persistence in animals in spite of frustration or pain. Through a variety of intermittent reinforcement and punishment schedules, he taught animals persistence in overcoming prolonged failure.[10][11][12] This series of research provided an animal model of the positive psychology of optimism and grit as well as the empirical basis for his deep-and-wide hypothesis of negative situations.[13] His research on persistence has also led to Rosenbaum's development of learned resourcefulness.[14]

Social cognition

In the area of social cognition, Wong's main contribution was the demonstration of spontaneous attribution, both causal and existential.[15][16] As well, Wong demonstrated that internal and external control are two separate dimensions rather than opposite poles on the same continuum.[17] This finding later led to the development of the dual-system model of adaptation[13] and the dialectical approach to positive psychology.[4][18][19]

Wong's main contribution to stress and coping research is the resource-congruence model[20][21] and the Stress Appraisal Measure (SAM).[22] Wong also made the case that effective coping needs to be a part of positive psychology in his second wave of positive psychology (PP 2.0).[23][24]

In the area of positive aging and dying, Wong redirected the concept of successful aging from an emphasis on physical and biological factors to a psychological and spiritual orientation.[25][26][27][28] Wong also developed the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R), which includes three kinds of death acceptance as positive ways to cope with the reality of death.[29]

Existential psychology

Wong developed a pluralistic and integrative meaning therapy.[30][31] Based on Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy,[32][33][34] meaning therapy also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy,[35] positive psychotherapy,[3][36] and research findings on meaning and purpose.[37][38] Wong's main conceptual contribution to meaning therapy is identifying four components of meaning: Purpose, Understanding, Responsible Actions, and Enjoyment/Evaluation (the PURE model).[30] Meaning therapy interventions focus on self-transcendence, such as reframing bad situations into some larger meaningful context and pursuing some life goal that is larger than oneself.[39] Currently, he is a Virtue Scholar of the collaborative working group on Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life,[40] funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

Positive psychology 2.0

Wong's integration of existential psychology with positive psychology resulted in Existential Positive Psychology,[41][42] which recognizes the existential concerns and dark side of human existence. Later, this was broadened to become the second wave of positive psychology (PP 2.0),[4] which acknowledges the importance of the dialectical Yin-Yang principle and Asian indigenous psychology.[19] PP 2.0 is based on the foundation of the co-existence of opposites as essential for human development and flourishing.

Wong has given positive psychology away[43] through his Meaningful Living MeetUp group since 2011.[44] Participants learn basic principles of meaning and new ways of relating to each other. This outreach program was intended to improve mental health at the grassroots level.[45]

International psychology

Wong's contribution to cross-cultural and international psychology is threefold. The first was his emphasis on the importance of cross-cultural perspectives in stress and coping and positive psychology.[23][46][47][48] In addition, he has been organizing the Biennial International Meaning Conference since 2000.[49] At the ninth Biennial International Meaning Conference, he organized the first Second Wave Positive Psychology Summit.[50]

His research on death acceptance and the meaning of life impacted Taiwan's Life and Death Education.[51] He has given lecture tours in Taiwan and was awarded the 12th Global Love of Life Medal from the Chou Ta-kuan Cultural & Educational Foundation, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Life Education by the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health, and the Rising Great Compassion Award from the Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation.

Selected publications

Wong has published over 300 articles and chapters and authored or edited 11 books and monographs.[52] The following is a selected list of his most cited papers.

  • Wong, P. T. P., & Weiner, B. (1981). When people ask “Why” questions and the heuristic of attributional search. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40(4), 650–663. [Cited by 1133][53]
  • Reker, G. T., & Wong, P. T. P. (1988). Aging as an individual process: Towards a theory of personal meaning. In J. E. Birren, & V. L. Bengston (Eds.), Emergent theories of aging (pp. 214–246). New York, NY: Springer. [Cited by 525][53]
  • Reker, G. T., Peacock, E. J., & Wong, P. T. P. (1987). Meaning and purpose in life and well-being: A life-span perspective. Journal of Gerontology, 42, 44–49. [Cited by 483][53]
  • Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Gesser, G. (1994). Death Attitude Profile – Revised: A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death (DAP-R). In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.), Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application (pp. 121–148). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. [Cited by 453][53]
  • Wong, P. T. P. (1998). Implicit theories of meaningful life and the development of the Personal Meaning Profile (PMP). In P. T. P. Wong, & P. Fry (Eds.), The human quest for meaning: A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications (pp. 111–140). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. [Cited by 368][53]

Selected awards and honors

  • 1981–1986, member of the Behavior/Biological Review Panel in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Washington, DC.
  • 1994–1997, member of the National Advisory Council on Aging, an advisory body to Canada's Minister of Health in Ottawa, ON.
  • 1999, recipient of the Statue of Responsibility Award from the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy Vienna, Austria.
  • 2002, the Board of Governors at Trinity Western University established the Paul Wong Center for Research in Counselling Psychology.
  • 2008, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network on Personal Meaning, Toronto, ON.
  • 2013, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Life Education at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health, Taiwan.
  • 2016, recipient of the Carl Rogers Award presented by the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32) of the American Psychological Association.

References

  1. ^ College of Psychologists of Ontario. (2013). Paul T. P. Wong. Retrieved from https://members.cpo.on.ca/public_register/show/1252
  2. ^ Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Gesser, G. (1994). Death Attitude Profile – Revised: A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death (DAP-R). In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.), Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application (pp. 121-148). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis.
  3. ^ a b Wong, P. T. P. (2015). Meaning therapy: Assessments and interventions. Existential Analysis, 26(1), 154-167.
  4. ^ a b c Wong, P. T. P. (2011). Positive psychology 2.0: Towards a balanced interactive model of the good life. Canadian Psychology, 52(2), 69-81.
  5. ^ "About". www.meaning.ca. International Network on Personal Meaning. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  6. ^ Saybrook University. (2016). Paul Wong. Retrieved from http://www.saybrook.edu/faculty/byname/Paul_Wong/
  7. ^ Trent University. (n.d.). Psychology faculty. Retrieved fromhttp://www.trentu.ca/psychology/Faculty.htm
  8. ^ Trinity Western University. (2015). Paul Wong. Retrieved fromhttp://twu.ca/directory/faculty/paul-wong.html
  9. ^ Bolsta, Phil (2012-06-13). "My Video Interview With Dr. Paul Wong on Meaning and Purpose". Triumph of the Spirit. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  10. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (1977). A behavioral field approach to instrumental learning in the rat: I. Partial reinforcement effects and sex differences. Animal Learning & Behavior, 5(1), 5-13. doi:10.3758/BF03209123
  11. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (1995). A stage model of coping with frustrative stress. In R. Wong (Ed.), Biological perspectives on motivated activities (pp. 339-378). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
  12. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2006). The positive psychology of persistence and flexibility. Positive Living Newsletter. Retrieved from http://meaning.ca/archives/presidents_columns/pres_col_feb_2006_persistance-and-flexibility.htm
  13. ^ a b Wong, P. T. P. (2012). Toward a dual-systems model of what makes life worth living. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.), The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 3-22). New York, NY: Routledge.
  14. ^ Rosenbaum, M. E. (1990). Learned resourcefulness: On coping skills, self-control, and adaptive behavior. New York, NY: Springer.
  15. ^ Wong, P. T. P., & Weiner, B. (1981). When people ask “Why” questions and the heuristic of attributional search. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 40, 650-663.
  16. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (1991). Existential vs. causal attributions. In S. Zelen (Ed.), New models, new extensions of attribution theory (pp. 84-125). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
  17. ^ Wong, P. T. P., & Sproule, C. F. (1984). Attributional analysis of locus of control and the Trent Attribution Profile (TAP). In H. M. Lefcourt (Ed.), Research with the locus of control construct: Limitations and extensions (Vol. 3, pp. 309-360). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  18. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2009). Chinese positive psychology. In S. Lopez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of positive psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 148-156). Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
  19. ^ a b Wong, P. T. P. (2016). Chinese positive psychology revisited. International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, 6(1).
  20. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (1993). Effective management of life stress: The resource-congruence model. Stress Medicine, 9, 51-60.
  21. ^ Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Peacock, E. (2006). The resource-congruence model of coping and the development of the Coping Schema Inventory. In P. T. P. Wong, & L. C. J. Wong (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping (pp. 223-283). New York, NY: Springer.
  22. ^ Peacock, E. J., & Wong, P. T. P. (1990). The Stress Appraisal Measure (SAM): A multidimensional approach to cognitive appraisal. Stress Medicine, 6, 227-236.
  23. ^ a b Wong, P. T. P., & Wong, L. C. J. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping. New York, NY: Springer.
  24. ^ Wong, P. T. P., Wong, L. C. J., & Scott, C. (2006). Beyond stress and coping: The positive psychology of transformation. In P. T. P. Wong, & L. C. J. Wong (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping (pp. 1-26). New York, NY: Springer.
  25. ^ Reker, G. T., Peacock, E. J., & Wong, P. T. P. (1987). Meaning and purpose in life and well-being: A life-span perspective. Journal of Gerontology, 42, 44-49.
  26. ^ Reker, G. T., & Wong, P. T. P. (1988). Aging as an individual process: Towards a theory of personal meaning. In J. E. Birren, & V. L. Bengston (Eds.), Emergent theories of aging (pp. 214-246). New York, NY: Springer.
  27. ^ Wong, P. T. P., & Watt, L. (1991). What types of reminiscence are associated with successful aging? Psychology and Aging, 6, 272-279.
  28. ^ Reker, G. T., & Wong, P. T. P. (2012). Personal meaning in life and psychosocial adaptation in the later years. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.), The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 433-456). New York, NY: Routledge.
  29. ^ Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Gesser, G. (1994). Death Attitude Profile – Revised: A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death. In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.), Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application (pp. 121-148). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis.
  30. ^ a b Wong, P. T. P. (2012). From logotherapy to meaning-centered counseling and therapy. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.), The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 619-647). New York, NY: Routledge.
  31. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (in press). Integrative meaning therapy: From logotherapy to existential positive interventions. In P. Russo-Netzer, S. E. Schulenberg, & A. Batthyany (Eds.). To thrive, to cope, to understand: Meaning in positive and existential psychotherapy. New York, NY: Springer.
  32. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2002). Logotherapy. In G. Zimmer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychotherapy (pp. 107-113). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  33. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2014). Viktor Frankl’s meaning seeking model and positive psychology. In A. Batthyany, & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.), Meaning in existential and positive psychology (pp. 149-184). New York, NY: Springer.
  34. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2016). Logotherapy. In A. Wenzel (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology. New York, NY: Sage.
  35. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (1997). Meaning-centered counselling: A cognitive-behavioral approach to logotherapy. The International Forum for Logotherapy, 20(2), 85-94.
  36. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2010). Meaning therapy: An integrative and positive existential psychotherapy. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 40(2), 85-99.
  37. ^ Wong, P. T. P., & Fry, P. S. (Eds.). (1998). The human quest for meaning: A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  38. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (Ed.). (2012). The human quest for meaning: Theories, research, and applications (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
  39. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2016). Self-transcendence: A paradoxical way to become your best. International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, 6(1). Retrieved from http://www.drpaulwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Self-Transcendence_A-Paradoxical-Way-to-Become-Your-Best-2016-Aug-15.pdf
  40. ^ Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life. (2015). Scholars. Retrieved from https://virtue.uchicago.edu/page/scholars
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  42. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2016). Existential positive psychology. International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy, 6(1).
  43. ^ Wong, P. T. P. (2012, June 22). Giving positive psychology away: Meaningful living meetups. Positive Psychology News Daily. Retrieved from http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/paul-wong/2012062222849
  44. ^ Meaningful Living Project. (2016). Meaningful living group. Retrieved from http://www.inpm.org
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  46. ^ Wong, P. T. P., & Ujimoto, K. V. (1998). The elderly: Their stress, coping, and mental health. In L. C. Lee, & N. W. S. Zane (Eds.), Handbook of Asian American psychology (pp. 165-209). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  47. ^ Leong, F. T. L., & Wong, P. T. P. (2003). Optimal human functioning from cross-cultural perspectives. In B. Walsh (Ed.), Counseling psychology and optimal human functioning (pp. 123-150). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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  52. ^ Wong, P. T. P. "Curriculum Vitae". Dr. Paul T. P. Wong. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
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This article reads like a press release or a news article and may be largely based on routine coverage Please expand this article with properly sourced content to meet Wikipedia s quality standards event notability guideline or encyclopedic content policy October 2016 Paul T P Wong is a Canadian clinical psychologist 1 and professor His research career has gone through four stages with significant contributions in each stage learning theory social cognition existential psychology and positive psychology He is most known for his integrative work on death acceptance 2 meaning therapy 3 and second wave positive psychology PP 2 0 4 He has been elected as a fellow for both the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association Paul T P WongPh D 王载宝Wong speaking at the Lotus Foundation in Taiwan 2013PronunciationWang ZaibǎoBornApril 1 1937 1937 04 age 85 Tianjin ChinaNationalityCanadianEducationPh D University of Toronto 1970OccupationsPresident Meaning Centered Counselling Institute Inc Adjunct Professor Saybrook UniversityProfessor Emeritus Trent UniversityProfessor Emeritus Trinity Western UniversityOrganizationInternational Network on Personal MeaningKnown forMeaning TherapySecond Wave Positive PsychologySpouseLilian C J WongChildren2Websitewww wbr drpaulwong wbr comWong is the Founder and President of the International Network on Personal Meaning 5 and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy With more than 300 publications in journals and book chapters his major books are the two editions of The Human Quest for Meaning A Handbook of Psychological Research and Clinical Applications 1998 and The Human Quest for Meaning Theories Research and Applications 2012 as well as The Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping 2006 Wong is currently adjunct professor at Saybrook University 6 and Professor Emeritus of Trent University 7 and Trinity Western University 8 At the latter he was the Founding Director of the Graduate Counselling Psychology Program He also taught at the University of Texas at Austin York University and the Graduate Division of the University of Toronto Contents 1 Personal life 2 Research 2 1 Learning theory 2 2 Social cognition 2 3 Existential psychology 2 4 Positive psychology 2 0 2 5 International psychology 3 Selected publications 4 Selected awards and honors 5 References 6 External linksPersonal life EditWong was born in Tianjin China in 1937 and migrated to Hong Kong in 1948 He came to Canada as an international student in 1961 earning his B Th from the Toronto Bible College now Tyndale University College and Seminary in 1964 and B A in Honours Psychology from Carleton University in 1967 In 1970 he earned his Ph D in psychology from the University of Toronto Wong s career straddles two domains psychology and Christian ministry He first served as the Founding Pastor of the Chinese Gospel Church in Toronto in the early 1960s and then started the Peterborough Chinese Christian Fellowship in the 1970s while teaching at Trent University He was involved in resettling the boat people in the 1980s Afterward he founded the graduate program in counselling psychology at Trinity Western University in the early 1990s During his tenure he started a neighbours together program and received a Cultural Harmony Award from VanCity for his community outreach 9 Research EditWong s research career has covered several domains in psychology learning theory social cognition existential psychology and positive psychology Learning theory Edit Wong s first decade of research in the area of animal learning focused on how to develop persistence in animals in spite of frustration or pain Through a variety of intermittent reinforcement and punishment schedules he taught animals persistence in overcoming prolonged failure 10 11 12 This series of research provided an animal model of the positive psychology of optimism and grit as well as the empirical basis for his deep and wide hypothesis of negative situations 13 His research on persistence has also led to Rosenbaum s development of learned resourcefulness 14 Social cognition Edit In the area of social cognition Wong s main contribution was the demonstration of spontaneous attribution both causal and existential 15 16 As well Wong demonstrated that internal and external control are two separate dimensions rather than opposite poles on the same continuum 17 This finding later led to the development of the dual system model of adaptation 13 and the dialectical approach to positive psychology 4 18 19 Wong s main contribution to stress and coping research is the resource congruence model 20 21 and the Stress Appraisal Measure SAM 22 Wong also made the case that effective coping needs to be a part of positive psychology in his second wave of positive psychology PP 2 0 23 24 In the area of positive aging and dying Wong redirected the concept of successful aging from an emphasis on physical and biological factors to a psychological and spiritual orientation 25 26 27 28 Wong also developed the Death Attitude Profile Revised DAP R which includes three kinds of death acceptance as positive ways to cope with the reality of death 29 Existential psychology Edit Wong developed a pluralistic and integrative meaning therapy 30 31 Based on Viktor Frankl s logotherapy 32 33 34 meaning therapy also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy 35 positive psychotherapy 3 36 and research findings on meaning and purpose 37 38 Wong s main conceptual contribution to meaning therapy is identifying four components of meaning Purpose Understanding Responsible Actions and Enjoyment Evaluation the PURE model 30 Meaning therapy interventions focus on self transcendence such as reframing bad situations into some larger meaningful context and pursuing some life goal that is larger than oneself 39 Currently he is a Virtue Scholar of the collaborative working group on Virtue Happiness and the Meaning of Life 40 funded by the John Templeton Foundation Positive psychology 2 0 Edit Wong s integration of existential psychology with positive psychology resulted in Existential Positive Psychology 41 42 which recognizes the existential concerns and dark side of human existence Later this was broadened to become the second wave of positive psychology PP 2 0 4 which acknowledges the importance of the dialectical Yin Yang principle and Asian indigenous psychology 19 PP 2 0 is based on the foundation of the co existence of opposites as essential for human development and flourishing Wong has given positive psychology away 43 through his Meaningful Living MeetUp group since 2011 44 Participants learn basic principles of meaning and new ways of relating to each other This outreach program was intended to improve mental health at the grassroots level 45 International psychology Edit Wong s contribution to cross cultural and international psychology is threefold The first was his emphasis on the importance of cross cultural perspectives in stress and coping and positive psychology 23 46 47 48 In addition he has been organizing the Biennial International Meaning Conference since 2000 49 At the ninth Biennial International Meaning Conference he organized the first Second Wave Positive Psychology Summit 50 His research on death acceptance and the meaning of life impacted Taiwan s Life and Death Education 51 He has given lecture tours in Taiwan and was awarded the 12th Global Love of Life Medal from the Chou Ta kuan Cultural amp Educational Foundation the Lifetime Achievement Award in Life Education by the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health and the Rising Great Compassion Award from the Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation Selected publications EditWong has published over 300 articles and chapters and authored or edited 11 books and monographs 52 The following is a selected list of his most cited papers Wong P T P amp Weiner B 1981 When people ask Why questions and the heuristic of attributional search Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40 4 650 663 Cited by 1133 53 Reker G T amp Wong P T P 1988 Aging as an individual process Towards a theory of personal meaning In J E Birren amp V L Bengston Eds Emergent theories of aging pp 214 246 New York NY Springer Cited by 525 53 Reker G T Peacock E J amp Wong P T P 1987 Meaning and purpose in life and well being A life span perspective Journal of Gerontology 42 44 49 Cited by 483 53 Wong P T P Reker G T amp Gesser G 1994 Death Attitude Profile Revised A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death DAP R In R A Neimeyer Ed Death anxiety handbook Research instrumentation and application pp 121 148 Washington DC Taylor amp Francis Cited by 453 53 Wong P T P 1998 Implicit theories of meaningful life and the development of the Personal Meaning Profile PMP In P T P Wong amp P Fry Eds The human quest for meaning A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications pp 111 140 Mahwah NJ Erlbaum Cited by 368 53 Selected awards and honors Edit1981 1986 member of the Behavior Biological Review Panel in the National Institute of Mental Health NIMH in Washington DC 1994 1997 member of the National Advisory Council on Aging an advisory body to Canada s Minister of Health in Ottawa ON 1999 recipient of the Statue of Responsibility Award from the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy Vienna Austria 2002 the Board of Governors at Trinity Western University established the Paul Wong Center for Research in Counselling Psychology 2008 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network on Personal Meaning Toronto ON 2013 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Life Education at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Taiwan 2016 recipient of the Carl Rogers Award presented by the Society for Humanistic Psychology Division 32 of the American Psychological Association References Edit College of Psychologists of Ontario 2013 Paul T P Wong Retrieved from https members cpo on ca public register show 1252 Wong P T P Reker G T amp Gesser G 1994 Death Attitude Profile Revised A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death DAP R In R A Neimeyer Ed Death anxiety handbook Research instrumentation and application pp 121 148 Washington DC Taylor amp Francis a b Wong P T P 2015 Meaning therapy Assessments and interventions Existential Analysis 26 1 154 167 a b c Wong P T P 2011 Positive psychology 2 0 Towards a balanced interactive model of the good life Canadian Psychology 52 2 69 81 About www meaning ca International Network on Personal Meaning Retrieved 2016 03 23 Saybrook University 2016 Paul Wong Retrieved from http www saybrook edu faculty byname Paul Wong Trent University n d Psychology faculty Retrieved fromhttp www trentu ca psychology Faculty htm Trinity Western University 2015 Paul Wong Retrieved fromhttp twu ca directory faculty paul wong html Bolsta Phil 2012 06 13 My Video Interview With Dr Paul Wong on Meaning and Purpose Triumph of the Spirit Retrieved 2016 03 25 Wong P T P 1977 A behavioral field approach to instrumental learning in the rat I Partial reinforcement effects and sex differences Animal Learning amp Behavior 5 1 5 13 doi 10 3758 BF03209123 Wong P T P 1995 A stage model of coping with frustrative stress In R Wong Ed Biological perspectives on motivated activities pp 339 378 Norwood NJ Ablex Wong P T P 2006 The positive psychology of persistence and flexibility Positive Living Newsletter Retrieved from http meaning ca archives presidents columns pres col feb 2006 persistance and flexibility htm a b Wong P T P 2012 Toward a dual systems model of what makes life worth living In P T P Wong Ed The human quest for meaning Theories research and applications 2nd ed pp 3 22 New York NY Routledge Rosenbaum M E 1990 Learned resourcefulness On coping skills self control and adaptive behavior New York NY Springer Wong P T P amp Weiner B 1981 When people ask Why questions and the heuristic of attributional search Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40 650 663 Wong P T P 1991 Existential vs causal attributions In S Zelen Ed New models new extensions of attribution theory pp 84 125 New York NY Springer Verlag Wong P T P amp Sproule C F 1984 Attributional analysis of locus of control and the Trent Attribution Profile TAP In H M Lefcourt Ed Research with the locus of control construct Limitations and extensions Vol 3 pp 309 360 New York NY Academic Press Wong P T P 2009 Chinese positive psychology In S Lopez Ed Encyclopedia of positive psychology Vol 1 pp 148 156 Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell a b Wong P T P 2016 Chinese positive psychology revisited International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy 6 1 Wong P T P 1993 Effective management of life stress The resource congruence model Stress Medicine 9 51 60 Wong P T P Reker G T amp Peacock E 2006 The resource congruence model of coping and the development of the Coping Schema Inventory In P T P Wong amp L C J Wong Eds Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping pp 223 283 New York NY Springer Peacock E J amp Wong P T P 1990 The Stress Appraisal Measure SAM A multidimensional approach to cognitive appraisal Stress Medicine 6 227 236 a b Wong P T P amp Wong L C J Eds 2006 Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping New York NY Springer Wong P T P Wong L C J amp Scott C 2006 Beyond stress and coping The positive psychology of transformation In P T P Wong amp L C J Wong Eds Handbook of multicultural perspectives on stress and coping pp 1 26 New York NY Springer Reker G T Peacock E J amp Wong P T P 1987 Meaning and purpose in life and well being A life span perspective Journal of Gerontology 42 44 49 Reker G T amp Wong P T P 1988 Aging as an individual process Towards a theory of personal meaning In J E Birren amp V L Bengston Eds Emergent theories of aging pp 214 246 New York NY Springer Wong P T P amp Watt L 1991 What types of reminiscence are associated with successful aging Psychology and Aging 6 272 279 Reker G T amp Wong P T P 2012 Personal meaning in life and psychosocial adaptation in the later years In P T P Wong Ed The human quest for meaning Theories research and applications 2nd ed pp 433 456 New York NY Routledge Wong P T P Reker G T amp Gesser G 1994 Death Attitude Profile Revised A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death In R A Neimeyer Ed Death anxiety handbook Research instrumentation and application pp 121 148 Washington DC Taylor amp Francis a b Wong P T P 2012 From logotherapy to meaning centered counseling and therapy In P T P Wong Ed The human quest for meaning Theories research and applications 2nd ed pp 619 647 New York NY Routledge Wong P T P in press Integrative meaning therapy From logotherapy to existential positive interventions In P Russo Netzer S E Schulenberg amp A Batthyany Eds To thrive to cope to understand Meaning in positive and existential psychotherapy New York NY Springer Wong P T P 2002 Logotherapy In G Zimmer Ed Encyclopedia of psychotherapy pp 107 113 New York NY Academic Press Wong P T P 2014 Viktor Frankl s meaning seeking model and positive psychology In A Batthyany amp P Russo Netzer Eds Meaning in existential and positive psychology pp 149 184 New York NY Springer Wong P T P 2016 Logotherapy In A Wenzel Ed The SAGE encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology New York NY Sage Wong P T P 1997 Meaning centered counselling A cognitive behavioral approach to logotherapy The International Forum for Logotherapy 20 2 85 94 Wong P T P 2010 Meaning therapy An integrative and positive existential psychotherapy Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 40 2 85 99 Wong P T P amp Fry P S Eds 1998 The human quest for meaning A handbook of psychological research and clinical applications Mahwah NJ Erlbaum Wong P T P Ed 2012 The human quest for meaning Theories research and applications 2nd ed New York NY Routledge Wong P T P 2016 Self transcendence A paradoxical way to become your best International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy 6 1 Retrieved from http www drpaulwong com wp content uploads 2016 03 Self Transcendence A Paradoxical Way to Become Your Best 2016 Aug 15 pdf Virtue Happiness and the Meaning of Life 2015 Scholars Retrieved from https virtue uchicago edu page scholars Wong P T P 2009 Existential positive psychology In S J Lopez Ed Encyclopedia of positive psychology Vol 1 pp 361 368 Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell Wong P T P 2016 Existential positive psychology International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy 6 1 Wong P T P 2012 June 22 Giving positive psychology away Meaningful living meetups Positive Psychology News Daily Retrieved from http positivepsychologynews com news paul wong 2012062222849 Meaningful Living Project 2016 Meaningful living group Retrieved from http www inpm org Wong P T P 2016 Meaning centered positive group intervention In P Russo Netzer S Schulenberg amp A Batthyany Eds To thrive to cope to understand Meaning in positive and existential psychotherapy pp 0 0 New York NY Springer Wong P T P amp Ujimoto K V 1998 The elderly Their stress coping and mental health In L C Lee amp N W S Zane Eds Handbook of Asian American psychology pp 165 209 Thousand Oaks CA Sage Leong F T L amp Wong P T P 2003 Optimal human functioning from cross cultural perspectives In B Walsh Ed Counseling psychology and optimal human functioning pp 123 150 Mahwah NJ Erlbaum Wong P T P 2013 Cross cultural positive psychology In K Keith Ed Encyclopedia of cross cultural psychology Oxford UK Wiley Blackwell International Meaning Conference www meaning ca conference International Network on Personal Meaning Retrieved 2016 03 23 Presentations 9th Biennial International Meaning Conference Chang S M 2016 The development and implementation of life education in Taiwan A meaning centered positive education Meaning Conference Retrieved from http meaning ca conference shu mei chang Wong P T P Curriculum Vitae Dr Paul T P Wong Retrieved 2016 03 25 a b c d e Paul T P Wong Google Scholar Citations scholar google ca Retrieved 2016 12 19 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Paul T P Wong amp oldid 1112260534, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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