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Dear JET Program Participants,

We are conducting research on various issues concerning how Expatriates adjust to living in Japan. We are in the process of collecting data for this study. This study is designed to better understand the qualities that make a person successful in an overseas assignment. The study essentially asks you to complete a few short, online questionnaires about your feelings and attitudes on some adjustment issues over the course of the next year. Our hope is that this will lead to finding ways to help predict who will make a good person for an overseas assignment as well as ways to help prepare people for such an assignment. Having this information, in the future, can lead to more effective selection and training programs for people who want to work in a foreign country. In addition, for your personal development, participating in this study may help you gain insight into yourself that could help adjusting to life in Japan.

We are writing to ask if you would be willing to help us out by participating in this study. At the end of this e-mail, there is a link that you can follow to participate in this study. If you agree to participate, you will be taken to a website where you will be asked to fill out several questionnaires. Then, over the course of the next year, you will be asked to complete additional short questionnaires at four different points of time. Completion of the questionnaires for each time is expected to take about 15 minutes and can be completed at your leisure. Further, the only identifiable information you will be asked to provide is your email address so that we can link your data from the multiple collection points. We will not share your email address with anyone else.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at 770.407.5842 or at khuff@ggc.usg.edu. Also, please be informed that Georgia Gwinnett College and North Carolina State University want to make sure that you are treated in a fair and respectful manner. If you feel you have not been treated according to the descriptions in this form, or your rights as a participant in the research have been violated during the course of this project, you may contact Dr. Juliana Lancaster, the head of the Institutional Review Board at Georgia Gwinnett College at jlancaster@ggc.usg.edu or Deb Paxton, Regulatory Compliance Administrator,　Box 7514, NCSU Campus (919/515-4514), or Joe Rabiega, IRB Coordinator, Box　7514, NCSU Campus (919/515-7515).

Thank you very much for any help you are able to give!

Kyle Huff, Ph.D.
Georgia Gwinnett College

Chia-Lin Ho
Graduate Student, North Carolina State University

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