This study examines the online shopping behaviour of 142 international university students (IUSs) within the context of a modified version of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Results indicate that perceived entertainment outweighs the impact of perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived self-efficacy (PSE) on attitude towards online shopping (ATT). Perceived risk (PR) was not related to ATT and ATT and behavioural intentions (BI) did not influence actual behaviour. Experience was strongly related to ATT, but demographics have little influence on TAM measures. Entertainment and usefulness were the primary motives for IUSs to shop online. The findings of this study could help universities and e-retailers develop guidelines to ensure a safe and attractive e-shopping experience for IUSs.

The dissertation thesis is dedicated to the acculturation as a process of adaptation to a new culture, its influence on achievement and well-being of university students. The work consists of the theoretical and the empirical parts. In the theoretical part, there is presented the fundamental knowledge of the subject area, the intercultural psychology is defined there, the acculturation from different points of view, and it also describes the cultural shock, different strategies and patterns of acculturation and last but not least also the typology of the groups involved in this process. The following section lists the most significant research projects in intercultural psychology. The last chapter of the theoretical part of the work focuses on the specifics of groups of foreign students, with an emphasis on acculturative stress, well-being and subjectively perceived performance and self-efficacy. The claimed areas are further processed in the empirical part of the work. The aim of the presented work is to analyze the process of adaptation to a new cultural environment, taking into account the key factors that influence the progress and results of this process. With regard to the intended use of the results obtained also the influence of self-efficacy, in particular in connection with the handling...