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Padmakumari Sarada – ProQuest LLC, 2024
International students experience adaptation difficulties that have the potential to affect their psychological well-being. Qatar has a growing yet understudied population of international students. The problem addressed in this study is that little is known about the role that cultural distance, psychological well-being, and selected demographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Psychological Patterns, Well Being
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Giorgio Di Pietro – European Education, 2023
We use Eurobarometer data to examine barriers to international student mobility. Multivariate analysis is employed to study how individual characteristics are related to the obstacles preventing higher education students from participating in activities in another EU country. The results suggest that several demographic factors including area of…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Barriers, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries
Amine Oudghiri – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the association of four independent variables (i.e., sex, class standing, GPA, and living status) with the academic integration, social integration, and institutional commitment (the dependent variables) of international students attending seven public regional universities in West Virginia. A researcher-developed, Likert-type…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Foreign Students, College Students, Social Integration
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Hadi Rajabbeigi; June Schmieder-Ramirez; James Dellaneve; Fereshteh Amin – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Although international students represent around 5% of the higher education population in the United States, research on psychological factors that result in this segment's academic success remains limited. This study sought to help fill this knowledge gap by exploring success factors that affect international students' academic progress.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
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Akuneme, Chioma Christiana; Nwosu, Kingsley Chinaza – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2023
Introduction: Communication apprehension is significant in understanding the language skills acquisition of foreign language students. However, studies on communication apprehension have been devoted mainly to second language learners of the English Language. Consequently, there is, in the body of literature, insufficient evidence to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety
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Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
In this paper we consider the experiences of international students studying in Norway, analysing data from more than 5,000 survey respondents. Variations according to students' region of origin and whether they are full degree students or exchange students are the focus. Students report a high level of overall satisfaction, exchange students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Geographic Regions, Student Satisfaction
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Haisley, Phillip K.; Grandorff, Catherine; Agbonlahor, Osasohan; Mendez, Sylvia L.; Hansen, Mandy – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2021
Globally, collegiate students possess distinct drives, opportunities, and constraints that influence their choices regarding if, when, and where to study abroad. This research explored the study abroad motivations of US students who were studying in other countries as well as international students who were studying in the US. Data was collected…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Motivation
Shahinaz Obaid Alkhaldi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this correlational study was to investigate the relationship between academic performance self-reported GPA, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety FLCA, and The International English Language Testing System IELTS scores among Saudi international students attending college in the United States, and to discover how this relationship…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Joep Hofhuis; Joran Jongerling; Jeroen Jansz – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Enhancing students' intercultural competences through international higher education requires a thorough understanding of the way in which these competences develop over time, how they relate to outcomes, and which factors predict their growth. To answer these questions, a three-wave longitudinal study was conducted among a sample of first-year…
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Background, Grade Point Average, Foreign Students
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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
Agbonlahor, Osasohan; Mendez, Sylvia L.; Bingham, Andrea – Online Submission, 2021
Understanding the career trajectories of PhD recipients is an important topic of investigation, particularly for foreign students who may work in a different country from where their degree was obtained. In the United States, approximately 70% of PhD recipients enter employment in industry, government, or academia upon graduation, while nearly 30%…
Descriptors: Graduation, Career Planning, Career Choice, Foreign Students
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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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Kim, Young K.; Rennick, Liz A.; Iorio, Michael F. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2022
Using a state-wide college student dataset, this study examined how the type of student-faculty interaction uniquely conditions the predictors of student-faculty interaction (student characteristics affecting the level of student-faculty interaction, in this case) as well as the effects of such interaction on select college outcomes. The results…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, College Students, College Faculty
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Khairina; Roslan, Samsilah; Ahmad, Noorlila; Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab; Arsad, Nurazidawati Mohamad – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The benefits of internationalization in higher education are indisputable. However, students studying abroad may face difficulties such as adjustment issues since they are away from home and go through a new stage in their lives. Seeing that an essential predictor of psychological adjustment is resilience, the current study aims to assess the role…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Students, Graduate Students
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Clough, Bonnie A.; Nazareth, Sonia M.; Day, Jamin J.; Casey, Leanne M. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
Limited research has examined distress or help-seeking knowledge and attitudes among international students. The aim of this study was to examine psychological distress, mental health literacy (MHL), and help-seeking attitudes and intentions among a sample of domestic and international tertiary students. The sample comprised 357 domestic and…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, College Students, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
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