Stress coping and psychological adaptation in the international students

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>International 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.</jats:p>

Mykolo Romerio universiteto studentų patiriamo streso įveikos strategijos

“…Kad studijos yra vienas dažniausių stresorių studentams patvirtina ir A. Bagdono 25 , L. Sapranavičiūtės ir kt. 26 , D. Karkockienės 27 tyrimai.…”

“…Tai lemia teoriškai pagrįstų ir psichometriškai adekvačių metodikų įveikai tirti stoka. Viena didžiausių problemų yra tai, kad streso įveikimo strategijos tiriamos skirtingomis metodikomis ir todėl sunkiau palyginti tyrimų rezultatus 29 .…”

“…Jie prie anksčiau minėtų į emocijas ir į problemą nukreiptų įveikos būdų dar prijungė į vengimą nukreiptą įveiką. Toks dar vienos įveikos išskyrimas yra reikalingas, nes į problemą nukreiptos įveikos koncentruojasi į situaciją, į emocijas nukreiptos įveikos pabrėžia dėmesį asmeniui, o su vengimu susijusios įveikos strategijos gali būti nukreiptos tiek į asmenį, tiek į situaciją 33 .…”

Specifics of teaching engineering drawing to foreign students of construction degrees

“…Among such problems, the following can be distinguished: the language barrier, unfamiliar climatic conditions, administrative difficulties, integration into another culture, new traditions, misunderstanding on the part of those around. Various problems connected with the adaptation of foreign students are discussed in works [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

Psychological Support Programs For Foreign Students: Accounting Values And Coping Strategies

“…The problem of international students' adaptation in the country of study remains relevant today as evidenced by scientific works of the last decade (Brisset, 2010;Gallagher, 2013;Chirkov, et al, 2007;Sapranaviciute, et al, 2012). International students may have different religions and political systems but they share common circumstances that allow them to be identified as a group.…”