Acculturation and contact in Japanese students studying in the United Kingdom.

CONTACT BETWEEN CULTURAL OR NATIONAL GROUPS--investigators of sum of two units different research traditions within mainstream psychology have examined its ends Acculturation investigators have tended to emphasize the experience of migrants (eg immigrants, sojourners, and asylum seekers) and to explore by what means contact between cultural groups can be a source of distress and ill health for minority assemblages Proponents of the contact hypothesis, in contrast, examine in what manner contact between groups can bring prejudice. There have been more [i]or[/i] less attempts at integrating these theories: Researchers have