The purpose of this study was to analyze the acculturation, acculturation stress, social distance, Korean language proficiency, and adaptations impact of policy suggestions for Korea's foreign students in adjusting to Korean university life, A questio...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the acculturation, acculturation stress, social distance, Korean language proficiency, and adaptations impact of policy suggestions for Korea's foreign students in adjusting to Korean university life, A questionnaire in Korean and Chinese was used to survey the Chinese international students of one university in Chungcheongnam-do, Korea about sociological characteristics, acculturation, acculturative stress, social distance, Korean language proficiency, and adaptations to university life.
Statistical analysis was conducted by using SPSSPC/Win. 18.0, Frequency analysis, Reliability analysis, Factor analysis, t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, Sobel’s test, etc.
The results of this study are as follows:
1) Differences on the general characteristics of Chinese International Students
First, for separation of acculturation, men scored higher than women. For marginalization, it increased according to length of stay. For separation, it was higher when the period was shorter.
Second, higher age was related to more acculturation stress. A greater sense of discrimination was related to a longer period of stay. The highest levels of homesickness were related to a stay of less than two years. Feelings of discrimination increased along with length of stay. Hostility was related to a shorter length of stay. Fear and culture shock were related to longer lengths of stay. Movement of the group was higher with a stay of longer than six months.
Third, social distance increased with length of stay.
Fourth, Korean language proficiency was higher with a longer length of stay.
2) Differences in the process of Chinese International Students studying abroad
First, in the sub-areas of acculturation, while maintaining the motherland's culture, for those who accepted the new culture of the country and at the same time accepting language training, undergraduate students scored higher than graduate students. Also, for assimilation, which does not maintain the culture of their home country but only accepts the new culture, undergraduate, graduate, and exchange students were higher than the language training students; undergraduates scored higher than graduate students.
Second, according to the sub-areas of acculturation stress, the ranks of exchange students, undergraduates and graduates were higher than those of language training students. Homesickness problems for undergraduate and graduate students were higher than language training and exchange students. Also, for the hostility of the students, undergraduates and graduate students were higher than those of language training and exchange students. Graduate student fear was higher than that of the language training students. Cultural shock for the exchange students was higher than that of the graduate students. The guilt of undergraduate and graduate students was higher than that of exchange students, and that of exchange students was higher than that of language training students. Other factors of undergraduate and graduate students were higher than the exchange student, and those of exchange students were higher than those of language training students. Movement of exchange and undergraduate students was higher than of language training students.
Third, the social distance for language training and graduate students was higher than that of the exchange students and undergraduates. Regarding Korean language proficiency, language training and graduate students scored higher than the exchange students and undergraduates. For academic adjustment and adaptations to university life, language training students ranked higher than undergraduates. For social adaptation, the language training, exchange students and graduate students scored higher than the undergraduates.
3) Correlation between the acculturation, acculturation stress, social distance, Korean language proficiency and adaptations to university life
First, acculturation and acculturative stress were related to a lower academic adjustment; higher academic adjustment was related to higher social distance and Korean ability.
Second, higher marginalization of acculturation, discrimination, fear, culture shock, and other such factors were related to social distance and movement towards decreased social adaptation. A higher social adaptation was related to increased social distance and Korean ability.
Third, acculturation, acculturative stress, social distance, and higher Korean ability were related to lowered personal adaptation.
Fourth, an increase in the acculturation and acculturative stress decrease the satisfaction of university life.
4) The factors influencing Chinese international students in adjusting to college life
First, the sub-areas affected by variables influencing The purpose of this study was to analyze the acculturation, acculturation stress, social distance, Korean language proficiency, and adaptations impact of policy suggestions for Korea's foreign students in adjusting to Korean university life,
A questionnaire in Korean and Chinese was used to survey the Chinese international students of one university in Chungcheongnam-do, Korea about sociological characteristics, acculturation, acculturative stress, social distance, Korean language proficiency, and adaptations to university life.
Statistical analysis was conducted by using SPSSPC/Win. 18.0, Frequency analysis, Reliability analysis, Factor analysis, t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, Sobel’s test, etc.
The results of this study are as follows:
1) Differences on the general characteristics of Chinese International Students
First, for separation of acculturation, men scored higher than women. For marginalization, it increased according to length of stay. For separation, it was higher when the period was shorter.
Second, higher age was related to more acculturation stress. A greater sense of discrim
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