Help-Seeking Perceptions and Behaviors

A Comparison of Chinese and American Graduate Students

Bibliographic Data

ID4455170
AuthorsWei‐cheng Mau (0000-0002-4459-3114, University of Iowa), David A Jepsen (University of Iowa)
Year1990
Volume18
Issue2
Pages94-104
Publication date1990-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-8534 • E-ISSN: 2161-1912
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.2161-1912.1990.tb00439.x
OpenAlexW2040743973
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited10

Graduate students socialized in separate cultural settings, Taiwan and the United States, but studying at the same large university were surveyed about their (a) preferences for counselor's characteristics, (b) images of a counselor, and (c) attitudes toward counseling and coun-seling services.Results show that Chinese and American students have different preferences for and images of a counselor.Although both groups have positive attitudes toward seeking counseling, they know very little about the counseling resources and locations available.The groups also differ in their expectations of the counseling process.Some sex differ-ences were indicated, but no clear pattern emerged.Counseling is increasingly becoming a cross-cultural activity as modern societies become more conscious of their pluralistic composition, and as increasing numbers of professional counselors are being asked to work effectively in settings that involve cultural and ethnic pluralism (Dillard, 1983).Every cultural group has its characteristic way of addressing personal issues.In helping relationships, it is imperative that counselors recognize, understand, and accept cultural differ-ences in coping patterns.For example, Vontress (1970) urged counselors to learn about cultural differences in lifestyles, val-ues, and attitudes in order to be effective in counseling indi-viduals from different cultural backgrounds.Cross-cultural studies of attitudes toward the helping profes-sions have given considerable attention to contrasts among the varying cultural groups during the past decade.For example, several studies (Tan, 1967;Yuen & Tinsley, 1981) have found that college students from different cultural groups differed in their expectations of a counselor's behavior

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