Pandemic in a Foreign Country: Barriers to International Students’ Well-being during COVID-19

Koo, Katie; Nyunt, Gudrun

doi:10.1080/19496591.2022.2056476

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental health students were unable to travel home or had major difficulties in returning home due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and quarantine mandates for international visitors in 2020 and 2021 (Chikaonda, 2021;Harlow, 2020;Koo and Nyunt, 2022). For example, considering hardline immigration stances of the Trump administration, some students decided not to leave for their home country for fear of not being allowed to reenter the United States once the pandemic recedes.…”

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“…For example, considering hardline immigration stances of the Trump administration, some students decided not to leave for their home country for fear of not being allowed to reenter the United States once the pandemic recedes. A majority of international students remained in the United States, often staying alone in the early days of the pandemic in 2020, and subsequently had limited opportunities for social interactions through early 2022 (Durrani, 2020;Koo and Nyunt, 2022;Yehudai, et al, 2022). This further aggregated a sense of social isolation, which was a concern for international students even before the pandemic (Hefner and Eisenberg, 2009;Koo and Nyunt, 2022;Ye, et al, 2020;Zhai and Du, 2020).…”

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“…A majority of international students remained in the United States, often staying alone in the early days of the pandemic in 2020, and subsequently had limited opportunities for social interactions through early 2022 (Durrani, 2020;Koo and Nyunt, 2022;Yehudai, et al, 2022). This further aggregated a sense of social isolation, which was a concern for international students even before the pandemic (Hefner and Eisenberg, 2009;Koo and Nyunt, 2022;Ye, et al, 2020;Zhai and Du, 2020). Moreover, university announcements to international students during the pandemic were sometimes mixed, ambiguous, and unclear, causing them more stress (Zhou, 2020).…”

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The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental health

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The COVID-19 pandemic has added significant stress to international students in the United States who already face myriad challenges in adjusting to their host country. We used a mixed-method approach combining survey and interview research to analyze how international students’ social media use and perceived social support/adjustment are associated with their sense of mental well-being when taking into account demographic and social psychological characteristics. Our findings show that international students spent an increased amount of time on social media during the pandemic for both networking and information seeking purposes. Those who use social media primarily for networking purposes reported better mental health, whereas social media use for information seeking was not significantly associated with their mental health. Social support was an important predictor of international students’ social media use. This study provides scholarly and policy implications for supporting international students during a public health crisis.

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“…Lack of this support can create and exacerbate feelings of loneliness [15]. In addition, the yearning for relatives and hometown is also the reason why the international students feel a strong sense of loneliness [16].…”

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“…After the pandemic caused the mental health problems of international students to aggravate, institutions and scholars began to pay attention to the particularity of international students' mental health problems. From 2020, many psychologists began to collect various attitudes and needs of international students towards mental health issues, and designed psychological counseling programs for international students of different cultures and nationalities [24].…”

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Exploring International Students’ Difficulties During Pandemic

Zhang¹

2023

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This paper reviews the various difficulties that international students have encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article will collect and analyze the difficulties they face from multiple perspectives, including academic, life, emotional, etc. International students in this study can come from all over the world and ethnicity, but they are all students from higher education institutions of the United States and other Western countries. Depending on their nationality or ethnicity, the study will also analyze the degree and number of difficulties they face. By analyzing whether and how the difficulties they faced were resolved, the US colleges and universities can more clearly understand what the needs of international students are under special circumstances, along with helping colleges and international students to get through the last time of the pandemic. The contribution of this paper is by reviewing the difficulties of international students that have been resolved and unresolved during this pandemic period, in similar crisis situations in the future, colleges and universities can provide international students with the help they need more quickly and accurately.

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A developmental model for international students and multiple ecologies

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Grimm,

Kim

2023

New Drctns Hghr Edu

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Traditional ecological models are promising for making sense of international student experiences, but the assumed monolithic nature of the structuring systems is inadequate for explaining development that occurs across multiple systems. We present and expand a model called the Spanning Systems Model that recognizes multiple ecologies. The model organizes ecologies in terms of home and host countries, arguing the systems are in some ways independent and in others intertwined. Student experiences are thus structured by both the systems in which the school is located as well as the systems from which the student is coming. Conceptualizing ecologies in this manner shifts the goal of a successful transition into higher education away from acculturation and towards a more complex, case‐specific project of identifying areas of alignment and contradiction and tailoring experiences to each student's unique ecologies.PRACTICAL TAKEAWAYS This expanded ecological model is intended to theoretically explain development for students whose experiences cross multiple ecologies, for example, multiple countries. While originally designed for international students, the model is applicable to any student with formative experiences in different macrosystems, like study abroad, or some first‐generation students. Academic, faculty, and career advisors who regularly work with international students should make a concerted effort to understand the different ecologies of each student. Rather than presenting an ideal model for acculturation into US higher education, advisors can use this model to identify alignments and contradictions and plan accordingly. New student orientations for international students can use this model as an organizing device. For example, potential contradictions between ecologies, like academic integrity and intellectual property rights, can be presented to students in the context of a holistic discussion around the rights‐based justice system in the United States. The model can be given directly to students as a worksheet to help make sense of their experiences and frame their thinking. Students can fill in directly the different systems in which they are situated and can begin to make decisions about how they can make changes.

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Pandemic in a Foreign Country: Barriers to International Students’ Well-being during COVID-19

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental health

The COVID-19 pandemic and international students: A mixed-methods approach to relationships between social media use, social support, and mental health

Exploring International Students’ Difficulties During Pandemic

A developmental model for international students and multiple ecologies

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