Achievement, Culture and Personality: The Case of the Japanese Americans

Acculturation and Personality as Predictors of Stress in Japanese and Japanese-Americans

“…Japanese culture has often been noted as differing significantly from Western culture in terms of language, social orientation, and role expectations (Caudill & DeVos, 1956;Nakane, 1972;Yamamoto & Wagatsuma, 1980). Japanese are more group oriented, with more clearly defined social roles centering around the family or a family-like organization, than are individuals in the United States.…”

“…For example, when an immigrant's traditional values are in discord with values of the new society, psychological problems are likely. Caudill and DeVos (1956) noted that interpersonal conflicts occur between first-and second-generation Japanese as a result of value conflicts between Japanese and American cultures. The Japanese mores of family solidarity and group orientations can be a source of stress when immigrants are made to readjust from one culture to another.…”

Heritage of Exploitation: A Brief TAT Report on South Brazilian Youth

“…In my research with the Japanese, both in the U. S. and in their homeland, I have published primarily on three topics; first, the pervasive high level of achievement motivation in Japanese whether they are in a majority or minority status position (See Caudill and De Vos, 1956;De Vos, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1975; second, patterns of internalization and social identity related to socialization within the primary family which may be personally integrative or alienating (See Connor and De Vos, 1989;De Vos, 1960, 1965, 1968, 1968b, 1975, 1986e, 1992De Vos, Hauswald and Borders, 1979;De Vos and Suarez-Orozco, 1986;Wagatsuma and De Vos, 1984); and third, the psychological problems attendant upon minority status within Japan on the part of Koreans, or the ex-pariah caste now known as "Burakumin." These studies relate to a general social theory about the inner psychological adjustment and the manifest social, economic and political adaptation of minorities (See De Vos, 1962, 1967, 1971a, 1971b, 1972, 1980a, 1980b, 1982, 1983a, 1983b, 1984De Vos andWagatsuma, 1966, Lee and.…”

Toward a Psychology of Populations: The Cross-Cultural Study of Personality

“…Had these internal critics devoted less attention to beating dead horses and addressed themselves freshly to the general question just posed, they might have considered the available evidence concern ing ethnic differences in personality is systematic studies such as those conducted years ago in the Committee on Human Develop ment on Southwestern Indian groups (H e n r y , 1947; I I a vighurst and N e u g a r t en , 1954) and Japanese-Americans (C a u d ill, 1953;Caudill and DeVos, 1956). Their excessive attention to the weakest and most extreme examples of the position they were criticizing interfered with the reflective treatment the question deserves.…”