Asian Values Scale: Comparisons of Korean and Korean-American High School Students

Abstract

This study was intended to examine mean differences on the Asian Values Scale between Korean and Korean-American high school students. For 199 Korean and 217 second generation Korean-American high school students, means on emotional self-control and collectivism were significantly different. A two-sample t test on the mean scores of Korean high school students (M = 4.5, SD = 0.6) and second-generation Korean-American high school students (M = 3.9, SD = 0.5) indicated significant differences (p<.001). This present study contrasts directly with Kim, Atkinson, and Yang's past findings of no differences between first- and second-generation Asian college students.