Culture shock: the adjustment process for international students

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dc.contributor.authorRalston, Sharon Anneen
dc.contributor.departmentStudent Personnel Services and Counselingen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:37:20Zen
dc.date.adate2010-06-08en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:37:20Zen
dc.date.issued1994en
dc.date.rdate2010-06-08en
dc.date.sdate2010-06-08en
dc.description.abstractThe nature of the adjustment process for international students, upon initial enrollment in American colleges and universities, has not been adequately described by researchers. The most accepted model used to describe the adjustment process is the U-Curve model (Lysgaard, 1955; Oberg, 1960) even though research has not shown much empirical support of this model. Juffer's (1983) Culture Shock Adaptation Inventory II (CSAI II) was used to examine the adjustment process of first-semester Virginia Tech graduate students from the People's Republic of China and India. A pre-test, post-test design was used to examine differences among Chinese and Indian graduate students. Four subscale dimensions and total dimension measuring between culture shock and cultural adjustment were analyzed. There were no significant differences between Chinese and Indian graduate students in the pre-test scores and the change scores. There were significant differences in the Control of Emotions and Physical Well-Being dimensions in the post-test scores. The results of the remaining dimensions for the post-test scores were not significant. These results revealed that, at the onset, graduate students from China and India are at similar adjustment levels. However, after approximately three months, Chinese students may exhibit more problems with their emotions and their physical well-being. Overall, however, it seems that the examination of individual rather than group differences may be the best way to more effectively understand the adjustment process of international students.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentvii, 81 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06082010-020545en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06082010-020545/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/42961en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1994.R357.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 31037172en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1994.R357en
dc.subject.lcshAdjustment (Psychology)en
dc.subject.lcshChinese students -- Virginia -- Blacksburgen
dc.subject.lcshCulture shock -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshEast Indian students -- Virginia -- Blacksburgen
dc.subject.lcshStudents, Foreign -- Virginia -- Blacksburgen
dc.titleCulture shock: the adjustment process for international studentsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineStudent Personnel Services and Counselingen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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