The Mediating Effect of Bicultural Self-Efficacy on Acculturation and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy for International Students in South Korea

Yu, Jin; Ahn, Sungsik; Lee, Sang Min

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.602117

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“…However, the model implemented by their host university does not facilitate their acculturative journey, or worse, it is a precondition of their acculturative stress. Institutional conditions are critical to positive acculturation (Jin et al, 2022;Kim et al, 2021). The key finding from this study is that institutional support, feelings of belonging or inclusivity, and improvements in communication are pivotal in fostering positive acculturation; these findings were discovered by the fact that the participants did not receive adequate support.…”

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“…The absence of social support in the cases of Illa and Ansar confirms the significance of Lee et al (2020) and Jung's (2022) recommendations that friendship, community, and other forms of social capital can buffer acculturative stress. Without such support, the inverse of the findings of Jin et al (2022) was found in which case the students' positive experiences of the host institution led to an acceptance of the host country's cultures and values.…”

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“…Acculturation is the process whereby different cultures interact to create changes in both the host country members and the sojourner (Sam & Berry, 2006). The effects of acculturation can become amplified as the process moves further and further in one direction, with accumulative advantages attained by higher levels of cultural competency (Jin et al, 2022). Positive acculturation increases with more profound familiarity, and negative acculturation becomes more damaging when the individual is estranged from the host culture (Jung, 2022).…”

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The Faults of Neoliberal Education: Examining International Students’ Experiences within Korean Higher Education

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2024

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The overwhelming negativity towards neoliberalism has focused on policies that have reduced academic life to strictly corporate terms and how the customer education model has led to the demise of civic and democratic values. Following Western universities' models, Korean education has adopted the same values and policies, inheriting the subsequent issues and problems that lie therein. This paper continues the call for resisting neoliberalism by exposing its negative impact on the acculturation experiences of international students in Korea. The study participants used transactional language to describe their feelings of marginalization and invisibility and the impoverished ways their host university treated them. Utilizing a qualitative case study methodology set within the framework of neoliberalism, this paper documents how neoliberal policies have been ideologically ingrained in Korean higher education. It highlights the necessity of reforming current policies to deter acculturative stress. It is hoped that the findings inspire resistance to the neoliberal ideology that Korean policymakers have subconsciously followed. Received: 23 December 2023 / Accepted: 19 February 2024 / Published: 5 March 2024

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“…There has been tremendous growth in international students worldwide (Dailey-Strand et al, 2021;L. Jin et al, 2022;Y. Y. Jin et al, 2022;Jon et al, 2014;Jung & Kim, 2017).…”

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The Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Tertiary International Students in South Korea

Dahee Jung

2023

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South Korea’s demographic problem has spurred Korean universities to expand their outreach and increase their stake in global student mobility. The desire for global expansion and diversity in Korean higher education clashes with the sensibilities of a nation lacking a multicultural tradition. This study documents this conflict of competing interests by narrating the cross-cultural adaptation experiences of 14 international students at a private tertiary institution in South Korea. Within the framework of cross-cultural adaptation theory, the researcher utilized questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group to better understand how international students are affected by their encounters with Korean society. From the qualitative analysis, the key themes of cultural affinity, language fluency necessity, and implicit discrimination were found to impact an individual’s cross-cultural adaptation. The results demonstrate that students' perceptions of Korea and their experiences constitute a feedback loop: either a positive cycle of adaptation stemming from a high interest in host language and culture that manifests into a higher student-perceived satisfactory experience in the host country or a negative cycle of dissatisfaction and rejection of the host society and culture. Received: 9 July 2023 / Accepted: 17 October 2023 / Published: 5 November 2023

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“…The concept of English writing self-efficacy is derived from self-efficacy, which was introduced by Bandura (1977) , who summarized the influencing results of self-efficacy in four aspects, which are determining the individual’s choice and persistence in a certain activity, affecting the individual’s attitude toward difficulties, affecting the acquisition and subsequent performance of new behaviors, and affecting the individual’s emotion when engaging in a certain activity. Existing research has shown that individuals with this overall confidence are able to make good predictions about the problems they face, and can effectively cope with whatever difficulties they face ( Jin et al, 2022 ). The concept of writing self-efficacy or English writing self-efficacy emerged when self-efficacy was developed in English writing.…”

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Research on correlation between English writing self-efficacy and psychological anxiety of college students

Bai

2022

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English writing is not only a cognitive process for college students, it is also influenced by factors related to the emotional or psychological level. With the continuous improvement of the quality of university education cultivation, the pressure faced by college students has increased significantly, which has also given rise to general anxiety among college student groups. In order to investigate the correlation between college students’ English writing self-efficacy and English writing psychological anxiety, we conducted a questionnaire survey on 595 current college students who were not majoring in English at a university in China, and used SPSS 25.0 software to make an empirical analysis of the collected data. The results showed that college students’ English writing self-efficacy was at a moderate level, and they lacked self-confidence in their English writing skills and tended to complete writing tasks; college students generally had a moderate level of psychological anxiety in English writing, among which avoidance behavior was the most significant; college students’ English writing self-efficacy was significantly negatively related to English writing psychological anxiety. English writing self-efficacy can reduce psychological anxiety level by enhancing college students’ English writing motivation. Therefore, we suggest that we should set up English writing courses based on the process teaching method, change college students’ English writing psychology in teaching, set reasonable writing goals, mobilize their enthusiasm and motivation in English writing, reduce college students’ writing anxiety, and enhance their self-confidence in English writing.

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The Mediating Effect of Bicultural Self-Efficacy on Acculturation and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy for International Students in South Korea

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

The Faults of Neoliberal Education: Examining International Students’ Experiences within Korean Higher Education

The Faults of Neoliberal Education: Examining International Students’ Experiences within Korean Higher Education

The Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Tertiary International Students in South Korea

Research on correlation between English writing self-efficacy and psychological anxiety of college students

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