Applicability of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule to Nisei

Acculturation and Personality among Japanese-American College Students in Hawaii

“…As indicated previously, the research interest in secondgeneration pisei Japanese American (Abe, 1958;Bitner, 1954;Caudill, 1952;DeVos, 1954DeVos, , 1955Fujita, 1956Fujita, , 1957Linderfe1t, 1949;Smith, 1938ab;Smith & Vinacke, 1951;Vinacke, 1949;and Vinacke, Eindhoven & Engle, 1949) has shifted recently to their third-generation offspring, the sansei, with explorations of such variegated topics as body imagery , need and trait structure (Arkoff, 1959;Arkoff, Meredith & Iwahara, 1962;Arkoff, Meredith & Jones, 1961;Fenz & Arkoff, 1962;and Meredith, 1959), social attitudes (Arkoff , Meredith & Dong, 1963;and Arkoff, Meredith & Iwahara, 1964), and correlates of classroom participation (Hutchinson, Arkoff & Weaver, 1966) and student leadership (Bartos & Kalish, 1961).…”

“…Of Hawaii's ethnic group, the Japanese constitute the largest segment (approximately one-third) of a population which has no majority group. While there has been sustained interest in nisei Japanese Americans (Caudill, 1952;DeVos, 1954DeVos, , 1955Fujita, 1956Fujita, , 1957Abe, 1958) recent attention has shifted to their third-generation offspring, the sansei. Arkoff (1959) found important differences in personality needs between third-generation Japanese-American college students and a mainlana' normative sample.…”

The social desirability stereotype in a hospital population.

“…The 118 subjects used as judges in this education, sex, and socioeconomic status. Sub-study were, for the most part, drawn from the cultural differences have been investigated by admissions ward and consisted of manifestly Fujita (5) and Lovaas. 1 The present paper ex-disturbed patients, many of whom were actends these observations to include a sample tively delusional and hallucinatory.…”