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Direct linkMak, Anita S.; Bodycott, Peter; Ramburuth, Prem – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
As international students navigate in a foreign educational environment, having higher levels of coping or stress-resistance resources--both internal and external--could be related to increased satisfaction with personal and university life. The internal coping resources examined in this study were host language proficiency, self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Satisfaction, Stress Variables
Kang, Hannah S.; Haddad, Eileen; Chen, Chuansheng; Greenberger, Ellen – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Previous research has suggested that children from immigrant families face multiple stressors associated with acculturation. One component of acculturation that has not been widely explored in relation to children's socioemotional development is limited English proficiency (LEP). Given that English is the main language used in…
Descriptors: Limited English Speaking, Well Being, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans
Slonim-Nevo, Vered; Mirsky, Julia; Rubinstein, Ludmila; Nauck, Bernhard – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
This study examined the impact of family interaction, perceived discrimination, stressful life events, and the hosting country on the adjustment of Israeli and German immigrants. Results show that changes in self-esteem between the 1st year of immigration and 2 and 4 years later were significantly related to family relations: the better the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adjustment (to Environment), Family Influence, Longitudinal Studies
Meyer, Cary J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the help-seeking attitudes and behaviors of international students at architectural schools of higher education. A review of the academic literature revealed no earlier research on this specific population. However, there was a moderate body of literature regarding help seeking attitudes and behavior…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Health Services, Help Seeking, Mental Health Programs
Pan, Jia-Yan; Wong, Daniel Fu Keung; Joubert, Lynette; Chan, Cecilia Lai Wan – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: The authors compared the predictive effects of acculturative stressors and meaning of life on life satisfaction between Chinese students in Australia and in Hong Kong. Participants: In 2006, the researchers recruited 606 Chinese students studying abroad at the University of Melbourne in Australia and at 6 universities in Hong Kong.…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Stress Variables
Peer reviewedPoyrazli, Senel; Kavanaugh, Philip R.; Baker, Adria; Al-Timimi, Nada – Journal of College Counseling, 2004
A sample of 141 international students from different U.S. colleges completed surveys related to social support, demographic variables, and acculturative stress. Findings indicated that social support and English proficiency uniquely contribute to the variance in students' acculturative stress. Results also indicated that students who primarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Stress Variables
Peer reviewedCross, Susan E. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1995
Examined differences in the independent and interdependent self-construals of 79 American and 71 East Asian graduate students studying in the United States and the influence of these self-construals on coping and stress. Self-construals and direct coping were the strongest predictors of stress for East Asian students, but were not predictive of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Coping, Culture Conflict
Download full textHoge, Robert D.; Khan, Nishat Ali – 1994
In French immersion programs in Canadian public schools, kindergarten is taught all in French, and the proportion of French instruction gradually decreases thereafter until in seventh grade instruction is only 50 percent French. This study examined the psychological adjustment of a group of first-grade children who had been enrolled in an early…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis
