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Author: Kun Yan Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811033471 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 157
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This book explores how Chinese students abroad may suffer stress, and how they conceptualize and adapt to stress in the American higher education environment. To do so, it adopts a mixed methods design: the sequential explanatory design, which is characterized by the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the collection and analysis of qualitative data. To date, no empirical research has focused solely upon understanding the stress and coping processes of Chinese students in the United States. This book addresses that gap, enriching the body of literature on international students’ adaptation process in foreign countries.
Author: Kun Yan Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811033471 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 157
Book Description
This book explores how Chinese students abroad may suffer stress, and how they conceptualize and adapt to stress in the American higher education environment. To do so, it adopts a mixed methods design: the sequential explanatory design, which is characterized by the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the collection and analysis of qualitative data. To date, no empirical research has focused solely upon understanding the stress and coping processes of Chinese students in the United States. This book addresses that gap, enriching the body of literature on international students’ adaptation process in foreign countries.
Author: Huanzhen Xu Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acceptance and commitment therapy Languages : en Pages : 136
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China has become a leading source of international college students for Western countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Given Chinese students' increasingly large contribution to the college population and financial import (tuition, travel expenses, other expenses, etc.) to the host countries, their specific needs in community services such as mental health and counseling should be addressed. Studies across different countries have explored the challenges associated with overseas experiences. These studies indicate that international college students, relative to domestic students, face higher levels of stress given the additional acculturative challenges. Research has further shown that Chinese international students reported high levels of psychological distress (depression, anxiety, stress). However, there is little research either investigating the measurement of unique stressors experienced by Chinese International Students or developing culturally sensitive interventions for their stress management. In the current two-part study, we aimed to, first, identify unique stressors of Chinese international students in the United States; and second, further design a culturally relevant Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention focused on helping Chinese international students manage the transition from their home country to the United States. Additionally, we ran a pilot study (randomized clinical trial) to examine the effectiveness of this intervention. Focus groups results revealed ten major domains of acculturative stress experienced by Chinese International Students. An acculturative stress measure, the Unique Stress of Chinese International Students (USCIS), was developed from the focus groups. The USCIS contains 103 items and demonstrated excellent internal consistency and convergent validity based on a sample of 30 Chinese International Students. Results of the pilot study based on a sample of 8 participants showed preliminary effectiveness of ACT in reducing depression, anxiety, stress, and acculturative stress reported by Chinese international Students.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acculturation Languages : en Pages : 179
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The primary purpose of this mixed methodology study is to explore the psychological help-seeking attitudes amongst the Chinese international students attending community colleges when facing acculturative stress. The social-behavioral model (Andersen & Newman, 1995) of help-seeking behaviors that included the variables of personal factors (e.g. age, gender), environmental factors (e.g. social support), and acculturation level were considered. A mixed-methods design was implemented using 39 Chinese international students and seven assessments. These assessments included the Attitudes toward Seeing professional Psychological help Scale (ATSPPHS), a modified versions of the Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation Scale (SL-ASIA), Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students (ASSIS), Asian Value Scale-Revised 9AVS-R), Multidimentional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Brief Religious Coping (Brief RCOPE), and a demographic questionnaire. Additionally, two focus groups with students and four interviews with administrators were conduced to understand students' acculturated challenges, their coping strategies, and their psychological help-seeking attitudes.
Author: Hugo Gonzales Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acculturation Languages : en Pages : 469
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"This is a longitudinal study aiming to ascertain the influence of ethnic identity, daily hassles, social network of support, coping strategies, English language proficiency, self-rating of health, and demographic variables on levels of acculturative stress and overall distress experienced by international students from mainland China and Indonesia. Students from these countries (and a comparison group of Australians students) completed measures on the above constructs at different stages of their sojourn to Australia, namely, at entry, four months after entry and eight months after entry. A grand total of 974 students completed the entry questionnaire (277 Indonesians, 558 Chinese and 139 Australians), 291 students completed the four months follow up questionnaire and 148 students completed the three waves of assessment (41 Indonesian, 69 Chinese and 38 Australian students).The international students were recruited from 17 Australian universities. The Australian sample was recruited at Macquarie University. A separate sample of 161 students from Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia completed a translated version of the questionnaire to ascertain the equivalence of Indonesian students living in Australia with students attending Universitas Indonesia. This study used both hard copy and web-based delivery mode of the questionnaire to students participating in this study. A sub-sample of 20 Indonesian and Chinese international students completed a one-to-one in-depth interview to investigate their acculturative stress experiences further.This study supported the stress and coping model, confirming that sojourners experienced moderate to high levels of stress from their initial interaction with the host society (Ward, Okura, Kennedy, & Kojima, 1998). Both Indonesians and Chinese experienced more distress than local Australian students across the three waves of assessment. These findings refute the traditional U-curve assumption of cultural shock, which argues that sojourners go through different phases in their process of adjustment to the host society, comprising honeymoon, disillusionment and readjustment phases. Chinese students scored higher on ethnic identity than Indonesians, and this was reflected in their lower levels of distress, particularly when they first entered the Australian culture. Contrary to traditional views, the Chinese were more willing than Australians to admit suffering emotional difficulties, and both Indonesian and Chinese students were willing to seek professional help for support with their emotional difficulties. Overall, high daily hassles and acculturative stress were the strongest predictors of high levels of distress. Higher avoidance and self-blame coping strategies were strong predictors of high distress across the three waves of assessment. Other predictors of high distress were language other than English as preferred language in Australia, using less support-seeking coping, less problem-focused coping, more willingness to seek professional help for emotional difficulties, and more religious coping. These findings contribute to the literature of stress and coping and have implications for both counselling international students and policy development for international offices in higher education". -- Abstract.
Author: Ran Zhao Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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The present study examined coping appraisal as a mediator, collectivistic coping styles, and multicultural personality as moderators, between perceived acculturative stress and psychological adjustment among a sample of 178 Chinese international students in United States. Structural Equation Modeling analyses indicated that coping appraisal partially mediated the relationship between acculturative stress and psychological adjustment, and multicultural personality moderated the relationship between acculturative stress and psychological adjustment. Hierarchical regression analyses cross-verified the moderating effects and specifically indicated that the association between acculturative stress and psychological adjustment was weaker as Emotional Stability (one of the multicultural personality factors) increased. None of the collectivist coping styles serve as significant moderators for acculturative stress and psychological adjustment. Implications of this study findings among Chinese international students were discussed.
Author: Joanna Shuk-Nga Lau Publisher: ISBN: 9781109840421 Category : Acculturation Languages : en Pages : 111
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This study investigated the relationship between acculturative stress and psychological well-being and the mediating and moderating role of collective coping strategies on the relationship between acculturative stress and psychological well-being for Chinese international college students in the southern region of the United States. In particular, this study examined: (a) the associations between acculturative stress and positive and negative components of psychological well-being, (b) the influence of stress appraisal on acculturative stress, (c) the moderating effect of collective coping strategies on the relationship between acculturative stress and different components of psychological well-being, and (d) the mediating effect of collective coping strategies on the relationship between acculturative stress and different components of psychological well-being. The results indicated that Chinese international students encountered acculturative stress, utilized collective coping strategies, and experienced both positive and negative components of psychological well-being. As expected, acculturative stress was negatively associated with positive psychological outcomes and positively associated with negative psychological outcomes. Stress appraisal was predictive of acculturative stress. A principal component analysis with varimax rotation suggested that a two-component solution (internal acculturative stress and external acculturative stress) more effectively and efficiently captured the six acculturative stress subscales previously proposed. A second principal component analysis with varimax rotation suggested that a two-component solution (active collective coping and passive collective coping) also more effectively and efficiently described the previously proposed seven collective coping subscales. Neither active nor passive collective coping strategies moderated the relationship between acculturative stress and psychological outcomes. However, passive collective coping (the combination of forbearance and fatalism coping strategies) partially mediated the relationship between external acculturative stress (the combination of perceived discrimination, perceived hate, and fear) and depression, and the relationship between external acculturative stress and anxiety for Chinese international students. Implications of these findings for clinical research and future empirical research are discussed.
Author: Paul T. P. Wong Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387262385 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 641
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The only book currently available that focuses and multicultural, cross-cultural and international perspectives of stress and coping A very comprehensive resource book on the subject matter Contains many groundbreaking ideas and findings in stress and coping research Contributors are international scholars, both well-established authors as well as younger scholars with new ideas Appeals to managers, missionaries, and other professions which require working closely with people from other cultures
Author: Ho-Tat Matthew Chu Publisher: ISBN: 9781374725720 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This dissertation, "Coping With Academic Stressful Events in Chinese Students: Optimism, Cognitive Appraisal, and Attribution" by Ho-tat, Matthew, Chu, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: DOI: 10.5353/th_b2979131 Subjects: Stress management for children - China - Hong Kong
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