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Mathias, Jinhua; Bruce, Megan; Newton, Douglas P. – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
The dissonance between Eastern and Western learning approaches is regarded as an obstacle for Chinese students in adjusting to Western education environments, and one of the reasons is the lack of an understanding of Chinese learning approaches, that is, Chinese learners are uncritically perceived as rote learners. This paper investigates Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Two Year College Students, Asians
Fang, Hong-Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Moderation effects of social support on the relation between stress resulting from five daily life issues (i.e., acculturation, second language, academic performance, interpersonal relationships, and financial concerns) and psychological distress (i.e., the level of depression) among China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan international students…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Foreign Students, Social Support Groups, Depression (Psychology)
Jian, Hu – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this mixed method study was to investigate how graduates originating from mainland China adapt to the U.S. academic integrity requirements. In the first, quantitative phase of the study, the research questions focused on understanding the state of academic integrity in China. This guiding question was divided into two sub-questions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Adjustment, Asians
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An, Ran; Chiang, Shiao-Yun – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
This article examines international students' cultural adaptation at a major national university in China. A survey was designed to measure international students' adaptation to the Chinese sociocultural and educational environments in terms of five dimensions: (1) cultural empathy, (2) open-mindedness, (3) emotional stability, (4) social…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Acculturation, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries
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Wu, Qiaobing; Palinkas, Lawrence A.; He, Xuesong – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
Drawing upon a sample of 772 migrant children and their parents in Shanghai, China, this study investigated how the interactions of social capital embedded in a range of social contexts (i.e., family, school, peer, and community) influenced the psychosocial adjustment of Chinese migrant children. Results of multiple-group structural equation…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Migrant Children, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
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Yan, Kun; Berliner, David C. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
To date, few studies have focused solely upon understanding the unique characteristics of Chinese international students in the United States. This inquiry examines what Chinese international students' demographic trends are over decades, what their motivations are for studying in the United States, what the unique features of their group…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Universities, Acculturation, Educational Environment
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Zhao, Siman; Chen, Xinyin; Wang, Li – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
This study examined the relations of maternal warmth, behavioral control, and encouragement of sociability to social, school, and psychological adjustment in migrant children in China. The participants were 284 rural-to-urban migrant children (M age = 11 years, 149 boys) in migrant children's schools and their mothers. Data on parenting were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parenting Styles, Emotional Adjustment, Affective Behavior
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Leong, Pamela – Journal of International Students, 2015
Using interview data from 11 international students, this paper compares international students' experiences at a single American university, and the acculturation issues that they encountered. The students assessed their experiences at the university, both positive and negative, and discussed their perceptions of American ways of doing things.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Barriers, Foreign Countries
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Liu, Yangyang; Lu, Zuhong – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study identified the different patterns of Chinese students' academic achievement trajectories over the high school transition period and examined the relationships between students' sense of school belonging trajectories and the different patterns of academic achievement trajectories. In a sample of 567 Chinese high school students, a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Student School Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Cheung, Alan Chi Keung; Xu, Li – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to examine the return intention of mainland Chinese students studying at prestigious universities in the Unites States. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. Participants were 90 students from three top-tiered universities on the East Coast of the United States. The results of this study…
Descriptors: Asians, Selective Admission, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
Dai, David Yun; Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying; Zhou, Yehan – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2015
In this grounded theory qualitative study, we interviewed 34 graduates from one cohort of 51 students from a prestigious early college entrance program in China. Based on the interview data, we identified distinct convergent and divergent patterns of lived experiences and changes. We found several dominant themes, including peers' mutual…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, College Graduates, Student Experience
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Wang, Yi; Harding, Richard; Mai, Li-Wei – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
This study examines young Chinese students' (born post 1985) adaptation to cultural exposure in the UK. Built from data collected from in-depth interviews, the research establishes that, through direct communication with students from various cultural backgrounds during teamwork, the Chinese students adapt to varying degrees in ideology,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment
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Gan, Yiqun; Hu, Yueqin; Zhang, Yiwen – Psychological Record, 2010
The current study compared the relative importance of proactive coping and preventive coping in the adjustment to university life among 403 freshmen at a Chinese university and evaluated the function of proactive coping in the stress process. Participants completed the Future-Oriented Coping Inventory (Gan, Yang, Zhou, & Zhang, 2007), the…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Coping, Prevention, College Freshmen
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Tian, Mei; Lowe, John – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
Insufficient attention has been given to the role of cultural differences in feedback communication with the UK's increasingly internationalised student body. This issue is particularly significant for international students taking short -- one-year -- postgraduate taught courses and we illustrate this in a study of Chinese students at a UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Multicultural Education, Role Perception
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Wang, Lihong; Byram, Michael – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
Investigations of Chinese students and their approaches to learning have emphasised a dichotomy in "western" and "Confucian" approaches to education but in a longitudinal study of Chinese postgraduate students' academic adjustment to a British university the dichotomy is less than real. The focus of this research was on an…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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