Re-adjustment of Japanese returnee children from an overseas sojourn

Takeshi Tamura and Adrian Furnham

Social Science & Medicine, 1993, vol. 36, issue 9, 1181-1186

Abstract: A questionnaire survey which was devised from the MMPI which was administered to Japanese children aged between 6 and 18 who had returned from an overseas sojourn for the duration of no less than one year (n=1941) and matched control groups from the same schools who had no overseas experiences (n=1354). Returnee children showed more dissatisfaction with their lives in Japan, but there was no indication that returnee children had more adjustment difficulties than their counterparts. In fact, they were less worried about their academic achievement and interpersonal relationships. Positive effects of the transcultural relocation were discussed as well as the adjustment.

Keywords: culture; shock; adjustment; Japanese; children; MMPI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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