The study investigated adjustment problems of 197 Korean students at 4 universities (3 urban and 1 non-urban) in Texas during the 1989-1990 academic year. Findings showed that students seemed to adjust relatively well to American higher education, but were still struggling to adjust in financial, communication/language, and social/cultural areas.…

This study describes the attitudes of Japanese housewives toward women's employment, and compares them with those of American housewives. A questionnaire was designed to assess beliefs and attitudes related to women's roles in work and family life. It was translated into Japanese for purposes of comparison. Questionnaires were administered to over…

The importance in Japan of group identity, the Japanese approach to decision making, and the way in which the Japanese avoid conflict and build consensus when making a decision are characteristics of Japanese interactions that are critical for Americans to understand in order to communicate successfully with the Japanese. Those who would be…

War bereavement has excruciating consequences for the families of victims. To examine the cultural differences in mourning, wartime bereavement, and psychopathology among United States and Israeli families, 20 American families of soldiers who died in the Vietnam War and 20 Israeli families of soldiers who died in the Yom Kippur War were…

Research arguing the validity of the construct of the addictive personality has been criticized for methodology and because it has often been based on a narrow group of personality dimensions. To identify personality differences between drug addicts and college students from two different cultures, four groups of subjects, aged 17-25, were tested.…

The role of nurses in providing patient care is both instrumental and expressive. Fulfillment of these dual roles depends on the psychosocial and physical well-being of nurses. This study examined the stress experience of nurses in Hong Kong. Various factors affecting the experience of stress and the coping strategies adopted were also…

Parents' involvement in their children's schooling can be justified on various ideological, psychological, philosophical, and educational grounds. Two dominant attitudes prevail toward parent participation: (1) the authoritarian-paternalistic view featuring a one-way teacher-parent relationship; and (2) the parents-as-equal-partners view. The…

The final report describes activities of Project First Chance, Interactive Outreach Project, a program to stimulate the development of improvement of educational services to preschool handicapped children and their families. The project was also designed to provide outreach to culturally diverse populations (primarily Navajos) and to programs in…

The paper addresses problems in identifying giftedness in culturally diverse populations. Among topics considered are (1) the relationship of certain performance criteria to established educational models, (2) the effect of selection processes using performance criteria on identifying children from disadvantaged backgrounds, (3) the effect of…

On the Alpert-Haber Achievement Anxiety Test, University of the West Indies black students had significantly higher facilitating test anxiety and significantly lower debilitating test anxiety in comparison to black students at Lehman College in the United States. Results are explained in terms of cross-cultural differences in attitudes toward…

Considered primitive and contemporary thought processes and their meaning for evaluating the cognitive processes of children. (RK)

This paper is addressed to three major themes related to career education in Europe among which was the contrasts seen in the context of career education as one views its processes in Europe and in the United States. (Author/RK)

Students from Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were categorized by sex and country of origin and evaluated for belief in external control over their lives. The scale used was the Internal-External Locus of Control, devised by Rotter. (EK)