Abstract
Counselors, academic advisors and educators working in educational institutions must address the increasingly diverse mental health and academic needs of culturally diverse groups. In Hawai’i, Native Hawaiians are a cultural minority. To alleviate the negative effects of current culturally inappropriate counseling and teaching methods, university personnel would benefit from intercultural training. The Intercultural Sensitizer (ICS) is a well-researched tool used in attribution training. The purpose of this study was to develop a Hawaiian ICS to train non-Hawaiian university personnel. The researcher gathered critical incidents from Hawaiian university students ( N=113); presented 20 edited, critical incidents to a bicultural Hawaiian panel ( N=6) to elicit culturally relevant attributions, and investigated the meanings Hawaiian students and non-Hawaiian students ( N=285) attributed to the critical incidents. Statistical tests indicated 3 of 20 critical incidents and 14 attributions were statistically significant, revealing finite, cultural differences between the Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian samples. Counseling and educational implications are suggested that should increase the chances of success among Hawaiian students enrolled in college.
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