Socio-Cultural Adjustment of International Students as Expatriates in America

This study examined the relationships between international students’ ethnic identity, self-efficacy, uncertainty avoidance, and their socio-cultural adjustment. A total of 65 international students (aged 18 to 33 years) from seven countries completed the online questionnaire. As hypothesized, path analyses demonstrated a positive relationship between students’ self-efficacy and their socio-cultural adjustment. International students’ uncertainty avoidance had a negative relationship with their self-efficacy, but a positive relationship with ethnic identity. The hypotheses that international students’ ethnic identity and uncertainty avoidance are negatively correlated to their socio-cultural adjustment were not supported in the present study.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Psychology

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Zhao, Li

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Anthony R. Paquin (Director), Dr. Jacqueline Pope-Tarrence, Mr. John Baker

• cultural awareness
• cross-cultural studies
• cultural relations
• personality and culture
• cultural psychology
• Personality and Social Contexts
• Psychology
• Social Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/228

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-1230