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Independent Learning, Friendships, and Fate in Intercultural Adaptation Among International Chinese Graduate Students in the United States

Journal of college student development, 2021, Vol.62 (1), p.107-112 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The American College Personnel Association. ;Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press Jan-Feb 2021 ;ISSN: 0897-5264 ;ISSN: 1543-3382 ;EISSN: 1543-3382 ;DOI: 10.1353/csd.2021.0007

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Title:
Independent Learning, Friendships, and Fate in Intercultural Adaptation Among International Chinese Graduate Students in the United States
Author: Gu, Wei ; Usinger, Janet
Subjects: Academic Achievement ; Acculturation ; Adaptation ; Adjustment ; Asian students ; Asians ; Beliefs ; College students ; Concept formation ; Coping ; Culture ; Doctoral Students ; Education ; Educational Experience ; Engineering ; Expectation ; Females ; Foreign Countries ; Foreign Students ; Friendship ; Graduate Students ; Independent Study ; International Education ; International Educational Exchange ; Interviews ; Learning ; Males ; Mathematics ; Perceptions ; Political science ; Principals ; Public Colleges ; Self Concept ; Student Adjustment ; Student attitudes ; Student Characteristics ; Student Personnel Services ; Study Abroad ; Trust (Psychology)
Is Part Of: Journal of college student development, 2021, Vol.62 (1), p.107-112
Description: It is estimated that by 2025, 7.2 million students will study in a country other than their own (Gu, 2009). Through the 2016-2017 academic year, Chinese students represented 33.6% of the total international student population in the US, up from 31% just 3 years earlier (Institute of International Education, 2018). "Intercultural adaptation" refers to "the dynamic process by which individuals, upon relocating to new, unfamiliar, or changed cultural environments, establish (or re-establish) and maintain relatively stable, reciprocal, and functional relationships with those environments" (Kim, 2001, p. 31). Through personal growth, students can become acculturated into a meshed network of connecting values, beliefs, and economic systems (Joseph & Baker, 2012), yet not always without acculturative stress. Although there are studies on benefits and stressors associated with international study, the research on how Chinese students perceive their own intercultural adaptation is limited. Two research questions guided this study: (1) How do Chinese international graduate students perceive their personal intercultural adaptability? and (2) What strategies do they use to enhance their intercultural adaptation?
Publisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0897-5264
ISSN: 1543-3382
EISSN: 1543-3382
DOI: 10.1353/csd.2021.0007
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Independent Learning, Friendships, and Fate in Intercultural Adaptation Among International Chinese Graduate Students in the United States

Copyright © The American College Personnel Association. ;Copyright Johns Hopkins University Press Jan-Feb 2021 ;ISSN: 0897-5264 ;ISSN: 1543-3382 ;EISSN: 1543-3382 ;DOI: 10.1353/csd.2021.0007

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