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Sampe, Margrett C.; Dueñas, Mary; Gloria, Alberta M. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2021
We explored the differences between and relationships of gender, class, college generation, and previous counseling experience for cultural orientation, cultural fit, willingness to seek and attitudes towards counseling for 112 Latin@ undergraduates. Ethnic identity played a key role as differences by college generation emerged where…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes
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Bastien, Gilberte; Seifen-Adkins, Tanja; Johnson, Laura R. – Journal of International Students, 2018
Few studies have provided an examination of the academic component of acculturation. This study sought to extend the work in this area by examining factors impacting academic adjustment of international students in the US and compare results to factors of psychological adjustment. Predictors of academic adjustment were investigated with a sample…
Descriptors: Success, Student Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Acculturation
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Li, Jiaqi; Wang, Yanlin; Xiao, Feiya – Journal of International Students, 2014
The present article reports a systematic review of the studies related to psychological well-being among East Asian international students. A total of 18 quantitative studies published in peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2011 were reviewed. Our review revealed three major results: (1) a majority of researchers (n = 13, 72.2%) tend to choose…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Students, Asians, Psychological Characteristics
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Bai, Jieru – Journal of International Students, 2016
A quantitative study was conducted to measure the acculturative stress of international students and investigate the predictors of acculturative stress. A total of 186 students participated in the survey. Results showed that 22.4% of the students in this study exceeded the normal stress level and might need counseling or psychological…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Foreign Students, Stress Variables, College Students
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Han, Meekyung; Pong, Helen – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
According to the 2008 U.S. Census, there are 15.5 million Asian Americans in the United States, and 17% are students enrolled in a university (Shea & Yeh, 2008). Asian American college students in higher education are oftentimes perceived as the "model minority" with high academic achievements and few mental and/or behavioral…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Help Seeking
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Yeh, Christine J.; Okubo, Yuki; Ma, Pei-Wen Winnie; Shea, Munyi; Ou, Dongshu; Pituc, Stephanie T. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
When immigrant youth come to the United States, they must learn to interact with dominant and cultural groups as part of the adjustment process. The current study investigated whether the association between Chinese immigrant high school students' (N = 286) English fluency, academic and career/college help-seeking, multidimensional acculturation,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Acculturation, Immigrants, High School Students
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Knipscheer, Jeroen W.; Kleber, Rolf J. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
In this article, the authors present essential aspects of the help-seeking behavior with regard to mental health problems of Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands. Samples of citizens in the general population (n=97) and outpatients treated in mental health care facilities (n=36) were included. Data were acquired by administering a semi-structured…
Descriptors: Health Services, Self Help Programs, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health
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Tata, Shiraz Piroshaw; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1994
Used several culturally based variables (individualism-collectivism, social support attitudes, acculturation) and gender to predict patterns of help-seeking attitudes among Chinese American college students (n=219). Each of the independent variables was found to be a significant predictor of attitudes toward seeking professional psychological…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese Americans, College Students, Help Seeking