Coming to the United States, international students face numerous cross-cultural adjustment difficulties. Asian international students have had the most cross-cultural difficulties among all international students. Helping Asian international students deal with their life stress has become a challenge for American counselors and psychologists.Studies on the attitude toward seeking professional psychological help have been done primarily with African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. As the population of Asian international students increases, it becomes important that the attitudes of Asian international students toward seeking professional psychological help be examined. The present study examined the relationship between Asian international students' levels of acculturation and their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. In addition, this study explored the relationships between Asian international students' levels of acculturation and their recognition of need for psychotherapeutic help, their stigma tolerance, their interpersonal openness, and their confidence in mental health practitioners.One hundred and seventy Asian international students from one Midwestern university and one Northeastern university participated in this study. Participants completed two questionnaires and a demographic profile sheet: (1) the Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation Scale-International (SL-ASIA-I); (2) the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (ATSPPHS); and (3) the demographic sheet which included country of origin, religious beliefs, plans/intentions to stay in U.S., the length of time in the U.S., previous therapy experiences, age, gender, education, major, marital status, and children. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) There was a significant relationship between Asian international students' acculturation levels and their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help; (2) The higher levels of acculturation the Asian international students had, the more positive their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to predict Asian international students' attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help.As was expected, a significant relationship between Asian international students' levels of acculturation and their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help was observed. In addition, significant correlations were perceived between Asian international students' levels of acculturation and their stigma tolerance and their confidence in mental health practitioners. Discussions of these findings and limitations and recommendations for future research were presented. / Department of Secondary, Higher, and Foundations of Education

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. / Title from title screen (site viewed Aug. 2, 2007). PDF text: ix, 225 p. : ill. (some col.) UMI publication number: AAT 3256643. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

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English, verbal vs. non-verbal content of courses taken and The present study was conducted to find the relationship between TOEFL scores and the graduate CPA's of the foreign students with Arabic as their native language. The results of the study indicated non-significant correlations for all 116 students, for males and females and for students having departmental majors in areas of education and sciences. A significant negative correlation was found for business majors. The factors responsible for non-significant or negative correlation between TOEFL scores and the CPA's seem to be restriction of range for graduate CPA's, difference between beginning and acquired language proficiency in the small number of individuals involved. In view of the above results, the TOEFL does not seem to be a good predictor of academic success for foreign students with Arabic as native language. It should be replaced or, supplemented with some other criteria of academic success at American colleges and universities. / Department of Educational Psychology

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The purpose of this study was to identify the changes in the perceptions of a selected group of Mexican and Japanese foreign students regarding own culture, target culture, and belief system over a time of sojourn in the United States. The total population of this study included 120 Japanese and Mexican students at the University of Arizona and at Pima College, Tucson, Arizona. The students were divided into six equal cells of twenty according to nationality and length of sojourn. The instrumentation employed in this study included: The Cultural Literacy Inventory, Rokeach Dogmatism Scale E, and a personal questionnaire. The following independent variables were also introduced into the study: age, sex, marital status, mobility of residence, past cross-cultural contact, and level of English proficiency. The following independent variables were identified as significant in affecting the target culture perceptions of the students: length of sojourn, sex, marital status in combination with nationality, age, residential mobility from house to house and level of English proficiency. The following independent variables were identified as significant in affecting the own cultural perceptions of the students: length of sojourn in its effect on the intragroup homogeneity of the Mexican students only, and level of English proficiency in its effect on the intragroup homogeneity for both nationalities. The following independent variables were identified as significant in affecting the degree of openness of belief system: nationality, age, residential mobility from house to house in combination with nationality, residential mobility from town to town in combination with nationality, and level of English proficiency. It was predicted that the Mexican students would face more cultural conflict in the areas of Interaction, Association, Subsistence, Temporality, and Learning. It was predicted that the Japanese students would face more cultural conflict in the areas of Interaction, Subsistence, Territoriality, Learning and Play. The researcher offered recommendations for further research and suggestions for the use of the findings of this study as a data base for orientation programs serving foreign students, Americans sojourning abroad, and in teacher education programs.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relevance of the graduate study program to international students who studied agriculture at the University of Arizona. The study was a descriptive survey of the 185 international students enrolled during the Spring semester of the 1987-88 academic year. The results from the 106 respondents (57.3 percent) representing 51 countries indicated the following: they had a concern for careers not being met in their home countries; they had a high opinion of the University of Arizona academic community; they were satisfied with their graduate study programs; and they thought course work could be used to solve practical problems. However, they wanted academic advisors to encourage graduate research related to the needs of their home countries and they wanted more off-campus educational activities. It was recommended that the academic advisors thoroughly assess the home country needs of international students when selecting a research topic and that the College of Agriculture develop a better program of off-campus educational activities in order to give international students a broader perspective of American agriculture.

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