Several culturally based variables were used to predict the patterns of help-seeking attitudes among a sample of Chinese-American students (TV = 219) in a large midwestern university. Cultural values operationalized by H. C.

The purpose of this study was to extend previous work conducted to understand the problem concerns and help-seeking likelihood of Asian-American college students. A sample of 596 undergraduate and graduate Asian-American students returned a survey questionnaire (response rate 53.8%). Results indicated that previous counseling experience was related to higher ratings for substance abuse concerns and willingness to seek help from a university counseling center to address academic, interpersonal, and substance abuse concerns. Asian-American women indicated higher severity ratings for substance abuse issues than did Asian-American men.

A study of sex and acculturation differences in occupational values among a group of Chinese-American children (5th and 6th graders) found that money and task satisfaction were very important values, whereas object orientation and solitude were quite unimportant. The highacculturation children valued self-realization more than the low-acculturation children. Some sex differences in occupational values were also found among this group of children: boys valued object orientation, self-realization, and ideas-data more than did girls, and girls valued altruism more than did boys. The counseling and research implications of the findings are discussed.We thank William Chun Hoon, principal, and all teachers at Castelar School, Los Angeles, who assisted in the data collection.

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