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Ritter, Zachary S. – Journal of International Students, 2016
International students add a great deal of cultural and intellectual diversity to college campuses, but they also bring racial stereotypes and socio-economic status hierarchies that can affect campus climate. Forty-seven interviews with Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean international students were conducted. Results indicated that a majority of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Socioeconomic Status, Race, Student Attitudes
Le, Lena; Urioste-Stone, Sandra De; Holmes, Nancy C. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2016
Socio-cultural exchange that may lead to better understanding and collaboration among racial and ethnic groups is one of the potential positive outcomes of heritage tourism. This study applied a case study design to understand individuals' motivations to visit a heritage site in the state of Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument. We…
Descriptors: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Motivation
Hwang, Wei-Chin; Wood, Jeffrey J. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
Objective: Our knowledge of how acculturative processes affect families remains quite limited. This article tests whether acculturative family distancing (AFD) [1], a more proximal and problem-oriented measure of the acculturation gap, influences the mental health status of Asian American and Latino college students. AFD occurs along two…
Descriptors: Intervention, Structural Equation Models, Conflict, Mental Health
Moreno, Gerardo; Wong-Lo, Mickie – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2011
Preparing educators to work with students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) background is increasingly valued as the demographics of today?s classrooms continue to evolve. Embracing cultural differences and recognizing the distinctive factors associated within the composition of CLD families are critical elements as educators become…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Student Diversity
Ford, Donna Y. – Exceptional Children, 2012
As the "land of opportunity" and arguably the greatest country in the world, the United States continues to change--culturally, racially, and linguistically. Reports abound regarding the changing demographics of the country and its schools. Over a 2-decade span (1989-2009), the percentage of "minority" students in public…
Descriptors: African American Students, Disproportionate Representation, Second Language Learning, Hispanic Americans
Moilanen, Kristin L.; Raffaelli, Marcela – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
We examined support and conflict with parents and close friends in a sample of ethnically diverse young adults (European-, Asian-, Cuban-, Latin-, and Mexican Americans). College students (N = 495) completed six subscales from the Network of Relationships Inventory (NRI; Furman & Buhrmester, 1985). Friends were rated higher than parents on…
Descriptors: College Students, Mexican Americans, Conflict, Young Adults
Sweet-Lazos, Heather A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this researcher was to develop an understanding of how parents are involved in their special education child's learning and to explore possible differences in parental engagement across age or grade levels (kindergarten through fifth grade) and cultural backgrounds. This researcher focused on Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and African…
Descriptors: Special Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Age Differences
Chao, Ruth; Kanatsu, Akira – Applied Developmental Science, 2008
This study examined both socioeconomic and cultural factors in explaining ethnic differences in monitoring, behavioral control, and warmth--part of a series of coordinated studies presented in this special issue. Socioeconomic variables included mother's and father's educational levels, employment status, home ownership, number of siblings in the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Siblings, Employment Level, Mothers
Diemer, Matthew A.; Wang, Qiu; Moore, Traymanesha; Gregory, Shannon R.; Hatcher, Keisha M.; Voight, Adam M. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Structural barriers constrain marginalized youths' development of work salience and vocational expectations. Sociopolitical development (SPD), the consciousness of, and motivation to reduce, sociopolitical inequality, may facilitate the negotiation of structural constraints. A structural model of SPD's impact on work salience and vocational…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Youth, Asian Americans, African Americans
Suizzo, Marie-Anne; Chen, Wan-Chen; Cheng, Chi-Chia; Liang, Angel S.; Contreras, Helen; Zanger, Dinorah; Robinson, Courtney – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
This study compared dimensions of independence and interdependence in parents' beliefs about daily child-rearing practices across four ethnic groups. Two questionnaires were completed by 310 parents of preschool-age children, and three belief constructs were identified. "Conformity" was least valued by European Americans. "Autonomy" was equally…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Asian Americans, Socialization
Lopez, Anna B.; Huynh, Virginia W.; Fuligni, Andrew J. – Child Development, 2011
To examine the development of religious identity during the teenage years, adolescents (N = 477) from Latin American, Asian, and European backgrounds completed questionnaires in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades (10th grade age: M = 15.81, SD = 0.36). Results indicated that religious identity remained stable across high school whereas religious…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Religion, Identification (Psychology), Longitudinal Studies
Lee, Courtland C., Ed. – American Counseling Association, 2019
With an emphasis on direct application to practice, this graduate-level text offers strategies for working with diverse client groups in a variety of settings. Introductory chapters build a foundation for cross-cultural counseling with discussions on current theory, the ongoing pursuit of multicultural competence, and the complexities of…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Cultural Differences, Counseling Theories, Cultural Awareness
Wu, Fang; Qi, Sen – Online Submission, 2004
Using the base year data of parent interviews (n=15,376) conducted by the U. S. Department of Education for the national Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K), this study examined patterns of parenting style of Asian-American parents (n=536) in six domains. Descriptive and ANOVA analyses revealed significant differences between…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Asian Americans
Snowden, Lonnie; Masland, Mary; Ma, Yifei; Ciemens, Elizabeth – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
The present study documented and evaluated steps taken by public mental health administrators to recruit members of underrepresented ethnic minority populations into treatment. By surveying county-level ethnic program specialists in the decentralized California state system, the study identified strategies considered effective for reaching African…
Descriptors: Health Services, American Indians, Mental Health Programs, Asian Americans
Portes, Alejandro; Rivas, Alejandro – Future of Children, 2011
Alejandro Portes and Alejandro Rivas examine how young immigrants are adapting to life in the United States. They begin by noting the existence of two distinct pan-ethnic populations: Asian Americans, who tend to be the offspring of high-human-capital migrants, and Hispanics, many of whose parents are manual workers. Vast differences in each, both…
Descriptors: African Americans, Human Capital, Mexican Americans, Disadvantaged Youth