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International Students' Personal and Multicultural Strengths: Reducing Acculturative Stress and Promoting Adjustment
Author(s) -
Yakunina Elena S.,
Weigold Ingrid K.,
Weigold Arne,
Hercegovac Sanja,
Elsayed Noha
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2013.00088.x
Subject(s) - acculturation , multiculturalism , psychology , hardiness (plants) , personal development , stress (linguistics) , social psychology , pedagogy , political science , immigration , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy , cultivar , horticulture , law , biology
International students are often encouraged to cope with acculturative stress by relying on personal and multicultural strengths. The authors explored this assumption by testing personal growth initiative, hardiness, and universal‐diverse orientation as predictors of international students’ acculturative stress and adjustment. Data from 336 international students supported a partially mediated model, such that greater levels of personal and multicultural strengths predicted less acculturative problems, thus leading to better adjustment.