Correlates of Ethnic Identification

Abstract

On an American-Japanese continuum a group of Nisei men, resettled in Chicago after their evacuation from the West Coast in 1942, were given scores on a number of items which grouped themeselves in three subareas: presumed Japaneseness of background, current behavior, and current orientation. The statiscally signicant order of correlations between the three suggests important individual differences in the bicultural socialization of the Nisei men as the variable explaining their later adjustment and orientation to their ethnic identification.