Inventory of college challenges for ethnic minority students: Psychometric properties of a new instrument in Chinese Americans

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 351-364

  Ying, Yu Wen ^a   Lee, Peter Allen ^b,c   Tsai, Jeanne L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese American college students; College challenges; College stressors; Ethnic minority college students; Inventory of College Challenges for Ethnic Minority Students

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; COLLEGE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS;

EID: 9344259766     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.10.4.351     Document Type: Article

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