<p>A growing body of research
has indicated the challenges and difficulties international students face
including but not limited to language barriers, academic struggles, social
isolation, discrimination, and psychological distress. Among international
students, East Asian international students represent a large subgroup and
report higher acculturative stress and struggles due to their deep and complex
cultural and language differences from the U.S. culture, compared to students
from other areas. Using Tweed and Conway’s (2006) framework, the current
research examined a model to understand the roles of culturally relevant coping
strategies (e.g., perseverance, meaning-focused coping) and acculturative
stress in explaining well-being (e.g., life satisfaction, positive affect,
negative affect, and peace of mind) among 200 East Asian international
students. The
results indicated that acculturative stress was a strong predictor of all
well-being variables, perseverance was a predictor of well-being except for
negative affect, and meaning-focused coping was a predictor of life
satisfaction and positive affect. Tests of indirect effects revealed that
perseverance partially mediates the relationship between acculturative stress
and positive affect and peace of mind. The results also suggested that
meaning-focused coping does not mediate the relationships between acculturative
stress and well-being variables. The discussion addresses limitations of
the study, suggestions for future research, and implications for literature and
counseling psychology practice for East Asian international students. </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/12264704 |
| Date | 07 May 2020 |
| Creators | Lina Liw (8803103) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/ROLES_OF_PERSEVERANCE_AND_MEANING-FOCUSED_COPING_IN_THE_RELATIONSHIP_BETWEEN_ACCULTURATIVE_STRESS_AND_SUBJECTIVE_WELL-BEING_FOR_EAST_ASIAN_INTERNATIONAL_STUDENTS/12264704 |
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