Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Relationship of Academic Resilience and Bicultural Competence -- The Value of Academic Resilience -- The Construction of Bicultural Competence -- Stress, Coping, and Context -- Cross Cultural Research -- Between Group Comparisons -- Results -- Toward a Model of Drop-Out Prevention -- Appendix A: Subject Questioonnaire -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- References -- NAME AND SUBJECT INDEX.