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Kirsten Calleja Salerno; Ma. Teresa Tuason; Bridget Stanton; Sara Buchanan – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to identify which factors predict psychological distress among international college students attending American universities. International students experience unique stressors, as well as bring with them their own enculturation: culture of origin identity, language, and competence when acculturating. To get a comprehensive…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Students, Stress Variables, Stress Management
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Cumhur Güngör – SAGE Open, 2023
Although for many students' stress is a natural part of university life, new stress sources have come into the picture with the pandemic. A "phenomenological" method, one of the qualitative analysis methods, was used in this study, which seeks to reveal the effects of various aspects of the pandemic on the life of university students.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Distance, Personal Space, COVID-19
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Matsuda, Eiko; Kikutani, Mariko – SAGE Open, 2022
The present study investigated how life stressors and sleep disturbances interactively affect depressive symptoms among university students. Based on a hypothesis that sleep disturbance can be a cause of depression, a statistical model is established which expects that life stressors impact depressive symptoms indirectly rather than directly by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Depression (Psychology)
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Lingjie Tang; Chang'an Zhang – SAGE Open, 2023
As the volume of research on intercultural adaptation of international students (IAIS) increases significantly over the past decades, a systematic review of the diverse literature on a global scale and its development process becomes essential. This study conducted a thorough bibliometric analysis for the knowledge domain of IAIS research using…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Intercultural Communication, Bibliometrics, Student Adjustment
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Clinciu, Aurel Ion; Cazan, Ana-Maria; Ives, Bob – SAGE Open, 2021
The tendency to cheat is consubstantial to any kind of education and training process involving work and effort. The study was conducted on 194 participants, first- and second-year students from the bachelor and master's programs from several engineering and humanities faculties from Brasov. The Academic Adjustment Questionnaire and the Academic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Student Behavior, College Students
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Huang, Jiaqin; Xie, Xin; Pan, Yuxi; Li, Guangming; Zhang, Fadi; Cui, Ningjing – SAGE Open, 2022
Self-esteem has always been a hot research object in the field of adolescent mental health. But in longitudinal research, using a single slope to describe the trajectory of adolescent self-esteem is unrealistic. The piecewise growth mixture model (PGMM) was used to fit the data in this study. Selecting from China Family Panel Studies database, a…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Developmental Stages, Longitudinal Studies, Mental Health
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Cozart, Deanna L.; Rojewski, Jay W. – SAGE Open, 2015
There are more Chinese student-scholars than any other group of international students studying in the United States. Despite this, there are relatively few studies that have focused on specific educational needs and required career support services for Chinese international students. This exploratory study was conducted to determine the…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Students, Cultural Differences, Occupational Aspiration