<p> By exploring the experience of Armenian Americans who have enrolled in the American higher education system, this study investigated how the Armenian American identity influenced the experience of college students. The research explored the community and cultural wealth that Armenian Americans brought to their universities, which interacted with established institutional resources and structures. Data was collected through semi-structured, open-ended interviews of 21 participants from the Greater Los Angeles area. The major findings of the study include the emergence of the Armenian American student identity (AASI), customization and negotiation of the oncampus experience, and building networks on campus. The overarching metaphor for the AASI became <i> Two Circles. Two Worlds.,</i> refers to the code switching taking place with the Armenian American college student population. This code switching resulted in the two campus acculturative strategies of compartmentalization and integration. The discussion explicated three factors that impacted the selection of these acculturative strategies: (a) on campus presence, (b) campus hospitality and environment, and (c) shared experience. The research concluded with implications for practice within student affairs, administration, and faculty as well as multiple opportunities for future research to provide further insight into this student population.</p>

"No (person) is an island" (Donne J, 1975, p. 87). The importance of social support in the lives of human beings is evident and for immigrant adolescents the role of social networks is important to facilitate their adjustment within the majority culture and to navigate their identity within spaces of belonging. / This study aims to describe how Filipino immigrant adolescents in Cote-des-Neiges, a district in Montreal, organize social support and how this relates to their mental health. This research is a mixed design with a sequential strategy. Firstly, data about social support from an epidemiological survey of Filipino youth are analyzed. Secondly, ethnographic research elaborates the findings from the quantitative part. / The results suggest that social networks play a dual role of both support and conflict for the adolescents and that there is a complex interplay between migratory trajectory and the strategies for organizing social support and negotiating spaces of belonging.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1999. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-10, Section: B, page: 5569. Adviser: Julia Shiang.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1999. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: B, page: 2413. Chair: Phillip Akutsu.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1999. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-11, Section: B, page: 5802. Adviser: Evonne Schaeffer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2001. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-09, Section: B, page: 4975. Adviser: Julia Shiang.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2001. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-11, Section: B, page: 5432. Chair: Julia Shiang.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2002. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-06, Section: B, page: 3034. Chair: Amy Wisniewski.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2004. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: B, page: 4665. Chair: Cynthia Rosengard.