Mental Health of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent -Through the Investigation of Nikkei University Students-

作者将MMPI西班牙语和葡萄牙语版本应用于获得政府奖学金继续在日本学习的拉丁美洲日裔学生。作者对他们进行了访谈，收集了16名男生和32名女生的资料。结果表明，它们普遍能很好地适应日本人1 - 2年的生活，几乎所有尺度的MMPi都与日本人非常相似。这可能是因为他们有奖学金，没有担心他们在日本的生活。另一个因素是他们是本国的本科生或研究生。这意味着他们已经确立了自己的社会地位。另一方面，他们总是觉得他们在日本和他们的国家之间有潜在的身份冲突。一些学生抱怨说，他们既不属于日本，也不属于他们的拉丁美洲国家。这种民族认同的冲突会在未来产生一些心理或精神问题，也会影响到他们的家庭成员。我们日本调查人员有义务对他们的个性和身份进行进一步的研究。

The author applied the MMPI Spanish and Portuguese versions to Latin American students of Japanese descent who have obtained the government scholarship to continue thier studies in Japan. Interviewing them the author collected the data of 16 male and 32 female students.The results showed that they are generally well adapted to Japanese life of one or two years presenting their MMPi means of almost every scale very similar to Japanese means.This is probably because they have scholarship and have no worries about their living in Japan. Another factor is that they are undergraduate or graduate students in their mother countries. It means that they have already established their social status.On the other hand, they always feel that they are between Japan and their country having potentially a conflict of Identity. Some students complains that they belong to neither to Japan nor to thier country of Latin America.This conflict of national identity can produce in the future some psychological or psychiatric problems also influencing their family members.We, Japanese investigators are obliged to proceed further studies about thier personality and identity.