Tatlay, Pardeep Kaur2010-02-162010-02-1620052010-02-16http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2204This study examined three research questions pertaining to J.E. Helms' (1984) racial identity development model to determine whether its predictions for general minority and majority populations are valid for three minority and majority subgroups. Participants consisted of 355 Caucasian. Chinese. Japanese, and Punjabi individuals who were undergraduate university students at a predominantly White university in Western Canada. Participants completed a Personal Data Sheet, the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale (minority scale). and the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale (majority scale). Analyses reveal that Helms' model does not accurately classify first-generation minorities or second-generation minorities. but does accurately classify third-/fourth-generation majorities (p < .05). These results are different than predicted by Helms' model and as such. suggest that this model may have limited generalizability.enAvailable to the World Wide WebJanet E. HelmsminoritiesCanadaUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Education::Educational psychologyThesis