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Avci, Mehmet; Montilla, Romulo E. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
Research on the international students primarily focuses on adjustment and acculturation issues rather than building and maintaining the wellness of specific cultural groups of international students. This study used basic psychological needs involved in self-determination theory to investigate the relationship between autonomy, competence, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Acculturation
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
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Oyeniyi, Odunola; Smith, Robert L.; Watson, Joshua C.; Nelson, Kristina – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
Predictors of first-year undergraduate and graduate international students' adjustment to college were examined using an online survey in 2019. The research sample consisted of 95 international students attending two universities in the United States. Findings showed a statistically significant difference between first-year graduate and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Li, Jiaqi; Liu, Xun – Journal of International Students, 2021
While Internet use plays an increasingly important role in individuals' lives, many college students have found themselves totally unconsciously plunged into Internet addiction (IA). Guided by the acculturative stress theory, we examined the relationships between acculturative stress, gender, age, length of stay, and IA among international college…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Acculturation, Culture Conflict
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Neto, Félix – Journal of International Students, 2021
International students constitute an important sojourner group. This study examined the levels and predictors of loneliness among international students. The sample included 188 Angolan, 210 Cape Verdean, and 221 domestic college students who attended Portuguese institutions of higher education. The relative strengths of background and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students
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Gebregergis, Werede Tareke; Mehari, Desbele Tekie; Gebretinsae, Dawit Yikealo; Tesfamariam, Aster Habte – Journal of International Students, 2020
Personal and situational factors contribute to international students' sociocultural adjustment in a host society. Thus this study attempts to determine the roles of self-efficacy, self-esteem, and previous travel experience on sociocultural adjustment. The sample for this study constituted 328 undergraduate and postgraduate international…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy, Self Esteem, Prior Learning
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Ma, Kyunghee – College Student Journal, 2021
This study explored the relationship between acculturation stress and depression among first-year Chinese and Indian international graduate students enrolled at a large Southeast university in the U.S. It examined the role that social support plays in that relationship and identified changes in depression levels over one academic year. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Acculturation, Stress Variables
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Pandya, Samta P. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
This article reports a study on the impact of spiritual training lessons as compared to creative arts lessons with a cohort of Indian and Sri Lankan doctoral students immigrated to the US. The aim was to examine programme effectiveness in mitigating their acculturative stress, promoting self-efficacy, and wellbeing. Spiritual training lessons were…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Creative Activities, Art Education, Lifelong Learning
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Koo, Katie; Baker, Ian; Yoon, Jiyoon – Journal of International Students, 2021
We analyzed 192 first-year international college students in the Mid-Atlantic region to examine the change in international students' acculturative stress, adjustment, and collegiate experiences during their first year of enrollment in U.S. higher education. We found that male students, students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Student Satisfaction
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Han, Suejung; Pistole, M. Carole; Caldwell, Jarred M. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2017
This study examined parental and professor attachment as buffers against acculturative stress and as predictors of college adjustment of 210 Asian international students (AISs). Moderated hierarchical regression analyses revealed that acculturative stress negatively and secure parental and professor attachment positively predicted academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Attachment Behavior, Student Adjustment, Acculturation
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
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Mejri, Sami – Journal of International Students, 2019
Guided by the theories of cultural intelligence and social distance, the purpose of this quantitative non-experimental study was to determine whether first-year American-born college students' political party affiliations and cultural intelligence (CQ) relate to their self-reported social distances (SDs) from international students. One hundred…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Political Attitudes, Social Distance, Peer Relationship
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
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Yang, Ningxi; Xu, Yayun; Chen, Xinguang; Yu, Bin; Yan, Hong; Li, Shiyue – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objectives: Engaging in sexual risk behaviour can be a maladaptive strategy for international students to deal with stress. This study examined the role of poor mental health in mediating the relationship between acculturative stress and condom-use intention among international students in Beijing, China. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anxiety, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Students
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