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Made two counseling videotapes: Tape A proposed to be consistent with cultural upbringing and values of international students, and Tape B proposed to by culturally discrepant. Two tapes were empirically shown to be significantly different from each other by counseling professionals as well as by counselor trainees. Both counseling perspectives were considered equally plausible by experts. (NB)

Hispanic-American and Asian-American college students, faculty, and staff (n=282) completed the Majority-Minority Relations Survey to assess acculturation attitudes. Significant effects for ethnicity; Asian culture subgroups; and for sociocultural variables of generational status, voluntary immigration versus political asylum, and religion were indicated by parametric and nonparametric tests. (Author/NB)

Examines unique adjustment problems faced by Asian Indian immigrants to the United States. Looks at the impact of higher education; pretransition factors of religion and family roles; posttransition factors related to social adjustment (middle class status, voluntary migration, ethnic social support, assimilation, intergenerational conflict); and posttransition issues related to psychological adjustment. (NB)

Measured acculturation-related demographic and attitudinal changes that first generation Asian Indians in the United States have sought or rejected. Results suggest that knowledge of such characteristics as perceptions of national identity, food and style of clothing preferences, language uses in reading and thinking, and marital status may help in predicting attitudes and attitude-related adjustment difficulties of Asian Indians. (NB)