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Alexander H. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2022
International students are critical for a flourishing U.S. higher education landscape (Younger, 2018). Since 2016, however, these students have faced significant cultural, economic, and social challenges while studying at U.S. universities (Peters & Anderson, 2021). To better understand international students' success in the current era, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Well Being, Student Adjustment, Acculturation
Lundeen, Lindsay Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The international student population is a vital part of higher education in the United States (U.S.), grossing over one million individuals enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions within the 2019-2020 academic year alone (U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs [ECA], 2020). However, studies on collegiate mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Suicide, College Students, Mental Health
Gore, Tara Nasir – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Past research has examined the factors that can influence achievement motivation in ethnic minority, immigrant, first-generation, and low-income college students. Academic self-efficacy, acculturation, family obligation, and perceived social support have been identified as being relevant to college students' achievement motivation. However,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigrants
Liw, Lina – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A growing body of research has indicated the challenges and difficulties international students face including but not limited to language barriers, academic struggles, social isolation, discrimination, and psychological distress. Among international students, East Asian international students represent a large subgroup and report higher…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Coping, Foreign Students, Academic Persistence
Greene, Makeda Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the increase of West Indian families of African descent acculturating into new communities and cultivating spaces for their cultures and customs to flourish, there is an increased significance for continued quantitative analyses to examine the cultural patterns, values and practices that take place within the West Indian familial structures…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology)
Aydiner, Cihan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The research investigates the interdependencies among higher education, motivation, belonging, and development. Also, the study covers the literature on integration and gender of international migrants. The first study examines the motivation to serve and its predictors among Turkish military officers and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) prior to…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Immigrants, Correlation, Higher Education
Interiano Estrada de Shiverdecker, Claudia Gabriela – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine how cultural practices, cultural values, cultural identification, and acculturative stress related to counselor self-efficacy among foreign-born counseling students. A total of 93 foreign-born students currently enrolled in graduate counseling programs in the United States were included in this survey…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Cultural Influences, Cultural Background, Acculturation
Rischall, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the influence of risk and protective variables on Latino students' experience of depression, college adjustment, and drop-out intentions. One hundred and seventeen Latino undergraduate students at a Midwestern university participated in this investigation. Perceived bicultural competence emerged as a protective factor; and…
Descriptors: Risk, Depression (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Linh Dang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Scholars who study Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities are in consensus that this group's realities diverge from their Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) counterparts. In fact, nearly four decades after large-scale immigration as political refugees from Southeast Asia (SEA), this population composed of Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Educational Attainment, Asian American Students, Correlation
Burnett, Lorie Lasseter – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Persistence and retention of college students is a great concern in American higher education. The dropout rate is even more apparent among first-generation college students, as well as those majoring in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). More students earning STEM degrees are needed to fill the many jobs that require the skills…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Qualitative Research
Mokua, Rodgers Nyandieka – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The literature on international students from Africa, and particularly Kenya, is very limited despite the significant number of Kenyan international students attending colleges and universities in the United States. Therefore, the intent of this study was to examine the adjustment problems of Kenyan international students in the United States. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries, College Students
Osikomaiya, Olujide – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this research project is to study the experiences of Sub-Saharan African students, who have earned professional degrees from American institutions and are currently living in the United States. Acculturative stressors have been identified by researchers as predictors of loneliness, depression, homesickness, and poor mental health…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Experience, Acculturation, Stress Variables
Mataczynski, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Guided by the work of Hurtado and Carter (1997) as an alternative to Tinto's theory of student departure (1993), the purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the relationship of institutional and cultural factors to satisfaction with academic advising, sense of belonging to campus and retention among international undergraduate…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Academic Advising, Undergraduate Students, Student School Relationship
Lopez, Adriana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Given the changing racial/ethnic composition of the United States, the impact of culture on adolescent health risk behaviors is an emerging and important issue. The purpose of the present study was to examine acculturation and ethnic identity and its impact on substance use, depression, and self-esteem in a sample of middle school students.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Acculturation, Ethnicity, Substance Abuse
Woldeab, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate Internet usage and its relationship with the acculturation of the Horn of Africa immigrants residing in urban Minnesota. Technology has and continues to be a cultural amplifier; in just two decades from its initial availability to the general public, the Internet has made geographical differences…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Networks, Acculturation, Urban Areas
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