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A. Questions for establishing cultural and ethnic identity.
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- Tell me about how you (and your family) came to New Zealand? Do you know why you left your home country? With whom did you migrate? Did you leave any special friends or family members behind?
- How is your life in New Zealand? Tell me about making friends here? What differences do you notice between what happens in your house and what happens in your friend's houses? Do you still do lots of things that you would have done in your home country? (like eating special foods or having special ceremonies).
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A.1. Questions to explore ethnically shaped developmental experiences:
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A.1.1
Childhood experiences.
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- What are some of the things you remember doing at home (before coming to New Zealand)?
- Did you go to school before coming here? (depending on age, explore how many years, primary/ secondary).
- Tell me about any special rituals you have gone through which you can remember (inquire about special rituals or rites of passage).
- How are things at home for you? Are Mum and Dad and your brothers and sisters still doing things like they would have done before you came to New Zealand? (enquire about ethnically prescribed family roles).
- Tell me about the clothes you like to wear now? Has anything changed?
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A.1.2
Language.
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- What language do you speak at home? Do you speak the same language with your mum and dad and with your sisters and brothers? What about with your friends?
- Did you learn any foreign languages (that is other than the one you speak at home) in your home country?
- What language did the teachers speak at your school back home?
- What language do you prefer to use when you speak to your friends and relatives? Do you prefer your own language or English? Why?
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A.1.3.
Gender issues related to culture.
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- What things do you think boys and girls do differently? What do you think about these differences?
- Who in the family should make the important decisions? Who makes the important decisions in your family?
- Are there things that only certain people in your family are allowed to do? How do you feel about that?
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A.1.4.
Age.
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- Who is the oldest person in your house? Do they make all the rules in your house? Did they always make the rules, even before you moved here? Does everyone have to listen to them, even mum and dad? How do you feel about that?
- What happens if you don't do what they tell you to do?
- How was it before you came here?
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A.1.5.
Religious and spiritual beliefs.
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- Tell me about your religion? Do you go to a church/mosque etc. (if yes continue, if no go to (A1.6).
- How often do you go to the church/mosque/temple?
- What is it like going to the mosque/church/temple?
- Did you go to a mosque/church/temple before you came to this country? If yes, would you like to go again?
- Do you eat any special foods? Is there anything you are not allowed to eat?
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A.1.6.
Socio-economic class and education.
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- Was your family wealthy before you came here?
- What do you think it would be like if you were back in your country now?
- How would you describe things now?
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A.1.7.
Acculturation process can be assessed by asking.
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- What do you think it means to be a real kiwi?
- What helps new immigrants fit in, in New Zealand?
- How has it been for you fitting in?
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B. Questions to Explore cultural explanatory model of illness.
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- Tell me about some of the things you are finding difficult?
- What do you think caused your problem?
- Why do you think it started when it did?
- What do you think your illness does to you?
- What bothers you the most about how you feel?
- Is there something about your illness that scares you?
- What kind of treatment / help do you think you should receive?
- Do you know how your illness would have been treated if you were still in your home country?
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C. Cultural factors related to psychosocial environment and levels of functioning.
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- Do you go to school? Do you learn similar things to what you learnt at school before coming here?
- How is school for you?
- What do you think about the children at school?
- How do you find the teachers?
- Tell me about your friends? How do you feel about play dates and sleepovers? What do your parents think about it?
- Tell me about the friends you left behind in your country? Do you ever contact them?
- Do you play any sports? Or do you have other special activities after school? What do you do after school?
- How do you find speaking English at school?
- Do you ever meet with people that come from the same country/culture as you do? What do you think about them?
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