Psychological Adaptation of Turkish Students at U.S. Campuses

Bektaş, Yelda; Demir, Ayhan; Bowden, Randall

doi:10.1007/s10447-009-9073-5

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“…Similar results were estimated in the study of Asian international students [17]. Also, in domestic students, lower levels of depressive symptoms were connected to social support and this was not affirmed in international students as found in a previous study [18]. Supposedly, less frequently used stress coping strategies of social support by international students is not as valuable to Lithuanian students.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…There is also some evidence that religious coping may be useful for international students' adaptation in a foreign country [4]. Moreover, it has been established that psychological adaptation is related to social support, which can also be evaluated as a stress coping strategy [18]. Another study found that international students who appreciated their friends, classmates and professors' support tended to have higher grades [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Stress coping and psychological adaptation in the international students

2012

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AbstractInternational students all over the world meet a lot of stressful situations due to different academic demands, cultural context, language problems and other adaptation difficulties. There is little evidence to explain what stress coping strategies are used by international students to cope with stressful situations and how they are connected to psychological adaptation. So the purpose of this study was to assess associations between psychological adaptation and stress coping strategies in international and domestic students. The study recruited 356 students: 258 host and 98 international students. Stress coping strategies were measured by Coping Orientation of Problem Experience questionnaire. Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale was used to measure depressive symptoms. Stress related health complaints were measured using a scale devised by the authors of this study. The study ascertained that in stressful situations international students used different stress coping strategies when compared to domestic students. Moreover, stress coping strategies used by international and domestic students were differently connected to health outcomes. The study pointed out that by researchers and counselors’ special attention should be given to international students.

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Stress coping and psychological adaptation in the international students

2012

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“…Indeed, there is a growing body of research that calls for a culturally sensitive curriculum and practice in counselling and education (Bektas, Demir, & Bowden, 2009;Heron & Pilkington, 2009;Muto, Hayes, & Jeffcoat, 2011;Seo, 2005;Woodward, 2010). But in their study of international trainees' experience of their multicultural counselling training in the US, Smith and Kok-Mun (2009) reported significant negative evaluations.…”

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confidence: 93%

The international student sojourn, identity conflict and threats to well-being

Brown

2013

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling

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This article reports findings from a qualitative (interview) study of the identity conflict experienced by five international students at a university in the south of England for whom real and perceived challenges to national self-image were shown to be unsettling. The article suggests that our cultures of origin are centrally important to our private and personal sense of self and it argues that counsellor educators and counsellors need to understand their students' and clients' emotional and behavioural problems in the context of their cultural identities. In this research, there was a strong emotional response to threats to collective identity, which appeared to be influenced by both the degree of students' cultural identification and their country's global standing. The following themes were generated from a thematic analysis and capture the essence of student responses to perceived derogation of their national identity: re-identifying with the culture of origin; allying with the West; resisting the discourse of western supremacy; and acquiescence with stigma. Of importance to all participants' perceptions of derogation was their location in the western world.

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“…and 4) their psychological responses when faced by the new cultural environment (Bektas, Demir, & Bowden, 2009;Hammer, 1992 tion, has been the focus of much research (Brisset et al, 2010). The term "acculturation" was first coined by anthropologists (Redfield, Linton, & Herskovits, 1936, pp.…”

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confidence: 99%