ABSTRACT
Dr John McArdle has advanced our science extensively, including the application of contemporary advanced statistics to the fields of psychometrics, multi-level methodologies, longitudinal designs, and data-mining techniques. America's western culture values individualism and productivity–that is, independence, self-reliance, individual achievement, timeliness, competition, and having only one winner. Vertical collectivism involves perceiving being part of the collective, but accepting inequalities within. The chapter focuses on the progress made by the National Center on Indigenous Hawaiian Behavioral Health because of its breath and scope, although occasional studies will be referred to from the Hawai Family Study of Cognition and Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center where particularly relevant. One important component of collectivism is inter-dependence. Implicit in the term is not just the assembly of people with the right academic skill set–this is sometimes the easy part; however, this alone can be disastrous.
