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Ganotice, Fraide A., Jr.; Downing, Kevin; Chan, Barbara; Yip, Lee Wai – Educational Studies, 2022
There is a dramatic increase in the number of mainland Chinese students coming to Hong Kong to attend various courses. With the aim of developing a profound understanding of the adaptation of the mainland Chinese students (N = 210), this study tested the relationship between types of motivation and goal content when studying abroad with a wide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Student Motivation, Self Determination
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Yu, Baohua – Intercultural Education, 2021
Despite widely reported 'Mainland-Hong Kong conflicts', recent years have witnessed progressive growth of Mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong universities. This study aims to explore the role of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in the cross-cultural adaptation of such a group of sojourning students. Structural equation modelling showed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Student Adjustment, Language Usage
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Yu, Baohua; Mak, Anita S.; Bodycott, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Existing research on the psychological and academic experiences of China-born students studying outside of China has mainly been conducted in Western English-speaking countries. Using a coping resources framework, we investigated the predictors of psychological and academic adaptation of 2,201 mainland Chinese students (74% female) studying in…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Acculturation, College Students, Young Adults
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Pan, Jia-Yan; Wong, Daniel Fu Keung – Academic Psychiatry, 2011
Objective: There are few studies comparing cross-cultural adaptation of migrant groups in two different cultural settings. This study compares the level of negative affect and acculturative stressors between Chinese international students in Australia and Mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong. The predictive effects of acculturative stressors and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Acculturation