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College Adjustment Of International Students: The Role Of Gender, Acculturative Stress, Coping Skills, Cultural Distance, And Perceived Social Support

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of gender, acculturative stress, coping skills, cultural distance, and perceived social support in predicting college adjustment scores of international students who attend universities in Ankara.
The sample of the study consisted of 170 (135 males and 35 females) volunteered international students from one private and four state universities in Ankara. A Personal Data Sheet developed by the researcher, Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (Baker &amp / Siryk, 1984), Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students (Sandhu &amp / Asrabadi, 1994), Brief COPE (Carver, 1997), Cultural Distance Scale (Bekta

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612769/index.pdf
Date01 January 2011
CreatorsOtlu, Fatma Nihal
ContributorsHatipoglu Sumer, Zeynep
PublisherMETU
Source SetsMiddle East Technical Univ.
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeM.A. Thesis
Formattext/pdf
RightsTo liberate the content for public access

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