Anticipated Role Conflict of Returning Overseas Students

Abstract

Summary Studied the re-entry phase of the overseas academic sojourn. At the conclusion of their sojourn and immediately prior to re-entry, 15 Asian graduate students attending the University of Hawaii were asked to anticipate three events that would make them happy, and three events that would make them unhappy after their return. Results indicate that 89% of the statements were about interpersonal events and referred to job, peer group, and family relations. Two indices indicate a substantial amount of anticipated role conflict in the job and peer domains: an almost equal ratio of positive to negative statements, and the high proportion (53%) of Ss who simultaneously expressed both positive and negative expectations, in each of these two areas. The data suggest that the middle of the W-curve is much flatter than either extremity.

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