Psychological and socio-cultural adaptation and experience of international students in Hong Kong universities

Psychological and socio-cultural adaptation and experience of international students in Hong Kong universities

• Yu, Baohua The Hong Kong Institute of Education

• N Students & Student Services
  • NN Overseas Students in Hong Kong
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

To be successful, international students must adapt psychologically and socio-culturally to their host context. This research, funded by Hong Kong research grant committee, is grounded in cross-cultural psychology (Shiraev & Levy, 2010), and present insights into the psychological and behavioral variations of individual international students as they adapt to study in an Asian context — Hong Kong universities. The purposes are to find out those factors that affect the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of those international students. In addition it explores the level and effect of contact between non-local students and local students and international students’ views of social and institutional support with regard to their adaptation. In this presentation, preliminary findings based on both quantitative and qualitative data collected from six UGC-funded local universities in Hong Kong will be reported, with a special focus on international students’ psychological and sociocultural adaptation and their interactions with local students. Copyright © 2016 IACCP.

Paper presented at the 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP2016): Honoring Traditions and Creating the Future, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/16244bcb

2021-10-07