Third
Culture Kid Questionnaire by Benjamin D. Hinely
Answers to this questionnaire are kept completely
anonymous; no names will ever be shared in connection to answers shared here.
This questionnaire is a growing project to gather the particulars of a particular
people. Third culture kids are very different from most people anywhere they
go. They live in a space between cultures that can be at times wonderfully full
of experience and at others terribly isolating. As this group is so unique,
they come with unique experiences, both good and bad. It is the authors hope
that this questionnaire will help, in some degree, to see what is common
amongst TCK and also what is different.
What follows is the first draft of the questionnaire.
Please answer honestly and openly. At the end is a place for you to put
additional questions you feel should be included. Thank you for your time and
patience.
1.
At what age did
you leave your home country?
·
Or if born
overseas, where?
2.
What age were you
when you returned to your home country?
3.
Where did you
grow up, or where did you spend most of your childhood?
4.
If you currently
live in your home country:
·
How long have you
been in your home country?
·
Do you feel like
you have readjusted to your home country? Why?
·
If so, how long
did it take you?
·
If not, why?
5.
How many
countries have you lived in/visited?
6.
Where do you consider
your home to be?
·
Why?
7.
What word best
describes your time abroad?
·
Why?
8.
What word best
describes your time in your home country?
·
Why?
9.
What emotion best
describes how you feel about your time abroad?
·
Why?
10. Do you still want to travel?
·
Why?
11. How many languages do you know?
12. Are you a student now, or do you work?
·
If a student,
what is your major and planned degree level?
·
If working, what
line of work or field are you in?
13. Do you want to work in the same line of work as your
parents?
·
Why?
14. What advice do you have for others going to another
country?
15. What advice do you have for those returning to their
home country?
16. What would you have done differently in adjusting to
the second culture?
17. What would you have done differently in adjusting to
your home culture?
18. Is your line of work/major influenced by your experience
outside of your home country? How?
19. Worst experience overseas?
20. Best experience overseas?
21. What is your comfort food?
·
Is it from
abroad, or your home country? Which Country?
22. What is your favorite fruit from abroad, and from
where is it?
23. Do you go out of your way to experience things from
other countries?
24. Worst experience in home country?
25. Best experience in home country?
26. Where did you feel culture shock the worst?
27. What does home sickness feel like?
28. Do feel like you belong to your home country, or do
feel like a foreigner?
29. Was it easier to go abroad, or come back to your home
country?
30. What was the best attribute of the people in the
countries you lived in?
31. What was the worst attribute of the people in the
countries you lived in?
32. What is the best attribute of the people in your home
country?
33. What is the worst attribute of the people in your home
country?
34. Do you currently suffer from depression?
35. Have you had depressive episodes in the past?
36. Do you suffer from anxiety?
·
Did you have this
same kind of anxiety before returning to your home country?
37. What do you feel you gained from living in other
countries?
38. What do you feel you may have lost from living in
other countries?
39. Was your experience an overall positive, or negative
one?
40. Do you blame your parents for any negative
experiences?
41. Have you thanked your parents for any positive
experiences?
42. Do you share your parent’s faith/beliefs?
43. What questions is this survey lacking?
