Assessment of interpersonal relationships of Asian and Asian-American clients is dependent on the nurse's understanding that such clients value:
1. The good of the group over individual needs
2. Privacy to the extent of leaving family out of touch
3. Individual autonomy, initiative, and assertiveness
4. Analytic thinking and self-advocacy
ANS: 1
Asian and Asian-American clients have been socialized into high-context cultures in which there is collective identity, group decision making, emotional dependence, deference to those of higher status and age, and use of indirect language to communicate. Options 2, 3, and 4 are characteris-tic of low-context cultures.
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