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Acculturative Stress, English Proficiency, Social Support, And Coping Strategies Among Chinese International Students, Jiabao Zhang May 2018

Acculturative Stress, English Proficiency, Social Support, And Coping Strategies Among Chinese International Students, Jiabao Zhang

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Drawing on data from 137 Chinese students who enrolled in a large research university in the Southwest of the United States, this quantitative study examined the relationships between Chinese students’ acculturative stress, English proficiency, social support, and coping strategies. This study utilized a survey method and employed four previously established questionnaires; moreover, the use of these questionnaires was to examine students’ acculturative stress, as it is the dependent variable of this study.

In data analysis, t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to compare means and standard deviations of Chinese students’ acculturative stress through students’ demographics and characteristics. …