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Home away from home— the role of social support for international students’ adjustment
Lashari, Sana Anwar1, Kaur, Amrita2, Rosna Awang-Hashim3.
Purpose – Academic and psychological adjustment of international
students is central to their success while pursuing their degrees
abroad. However, acculturation stress is abundant and may pose as
a challenge. Thus, in this study we examined whether social support
mediates the association between acculturation stress and academic
and psychological adjustment.
Methodology – A cross sectional research design was employed. A
total of 200 postgraduate international students from three Malaysian
public universities were recruited to participate in the study. The
Student Adjustment to College Questionnaire was employed to
measure their academic adjustment and psychological adjustment.
The Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support and the
Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students were used to
collect data on social support and acculturation stress. Path analysis
by AMOS 23 was used to test the hypothesized relationship.
Findings –Results provided support for the proposed model,
revealing that social support was associated with greater academic
and psychological adjustment among international students.
Significance – The present study has implications for university
policies, counsellors, and student affairs departments on the need
to take measures to facilitate healthy academic and psychological
adjustment among international students.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
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MyJurnal (2021) |
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3 |
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0.000 |
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Scopus 2020 |
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CiteScore (2) |
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Q1 (Cultural Studies) Q2 (Education) Q3¬¬¬ (Psychology (all)) |
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SJR (0.385) |
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