Chinese International Students’ Stressors and Coping Strategies in the United States

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Yan, Kun (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 37
• Θέματα: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Higher education.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; International and Comparative Education.; Higher Education.; Educational Psychology.

This book explores how Chinese students abroad may suffer stress, and how they conceptualize and adapt to stress in the American higher education environment. To do so, it adopts a mixed methods design: the sequential explanatory design, which is characterized by the collection and analysis of quant...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Chinese International Students in the United States: Demographic Trends, Motivations and Accuturation Features
• Chapter 3 Chinese International Students in the United States: Adjustment Problems and Coping Strategies
• Chapter 4 Methodology
• Chapter 5 Survey Findings
• Chapter 6 Chinese International Students' Stressors in the United States
• Chapter 7 Chinese International Students' Coping Strategies in the United States
• Chapter 8 An Examination of Individual Level Factors in Stress and Coping Process
• Chapter 9 Conclusion
• Chapter 10 Implications for Future Research.