The Role of Belongingness in International Students’ Acculturation Process

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-147
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Acculturation Process

How satisfied are international students? The role of town, gown and motivations

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jeroen Huisman ◽  
Jef Vlegels ◽  
Stijn Daenekindt ◽  
Marco Seeber ◽  
Melissa Laufer
Keyword(s):  
International Students

Suicidal Ideation Among International Students: The Role of Cultural, Academic, and Interpersonal Factors

2021 ◽  
pp. 001100002110024
Author(s):  
Andrés E. Pérez Rojas ◽  
Na-Yeun Choi ◽  
Minji Yang ◽  
Theodore T. Bartholomew ◽  
Giovanna M. Pérez
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Thwarted Belongingness ◽  
Perceived Burdensomeness ◽  
Using Data

We examined two structural equation models of international students’ suicidal ideation using data from 595 international students in two public universities in the United States. The models represented competing hypotheses about the relationships among discrimination, cross-cultural loss, academic distress, thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation. The findings indicated there were direct, positive links between discrimination, cross-cultural loss, and academic distress to perceived burdensomeness; a direct, positive link between perceived burdensomeness and suicidal ideation; and indirect, positive links between discrimination, cross-cultural loss, and academic distress to suicidal ideation via perceived burdensomeness. The only predictors that related to thwarted belongingness were cross-cultural loss and academic distress, and there were no indirect links to suicidal ideation via thwarted belongingness. In fact, with all other variables in the model, thwarted belongingness was unrelated to suicidal ideation. Finally, academic distress was directly related to suicidal ideation. We discuss implications of the findings.

Factors Influencing Library Usage among International Students and the Potential Role of Library Orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-490
Author(s):  
Frank Kofi Essien ◽  
Zhangping Lu ◽  
Wencheng Su
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Factors Influencing

scholarly journals Distance: how mobility gives rise to paradoxes in (re)constructing food identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-10
Author(s):  
Selma Tozanli
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
Process Work ◽  
Food Identity ◽  
Country Specific

The authors base their research on observations and in the literature concerning different forms of mobility of human beings and food products, distances and territorial anchoring. They continue by addressing the paradoxes in acculturation processes that occur during identity (re)construction in food consumption and eating habits. They focus on the role of cross-border migration, in the spreading of genuine country-specific products and/or local food specialties of migrant populations in their host countries. What are the different definitions of the distance/s between the migrant and his home country and the host culture? What role does the migrant play in the spreading of these eating habits? How does the acculturation process work? What different forms of territorial anchoring account the spreading of these genuine country-specific foods?

scholarly journals Food Consumption Behavior of Pakistani Students Living in China: The Role of Food Safety and Health Consciousness in the Wake of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khayyam ◽  
Shuai Chuanmin ◽  
Haroon Qasim ◽  
Muhammad Ihtisham ◽  
Raheel Anjum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Health Consciousness ◽  
Safety And Health

The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has considerably changed global food production, processing, and consumption at different levels. Sojourners are among those who have experienced a higher level of food insecurity during the crisis of the COVID-19 outbreak. The current research aimed to investigate the immediate consumption behavioral intentions of the Pakistani international students in the People's Republic of China (PRC) during the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and background factors of food safety and health consciousness that influence the consumption behavioral intention of Pakistani students toward unfamiliar local food in China. A relational model was analyzed where food safety and health consciousness were hypothesized to serve as background variables associated with TPB components. Moreover, the indirect effects of food safety and health consciousness on behavioral intentions were assessed. The data were collected through convenience samples from 462 Pakistani international students and were analyzed through partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results confirmed that food safety and health consciousness were positively associated with attitude (ATT), subjective norm (SN), and perceived behavioral control (PBC). However, food safety and health consciousness were indirectly associated with the behavioral intention only through ATT and SN. The results highlighted the role of food safety and health consciousness as important antecedents of classical TPB components that affect intentions and behaviors to avoid unfamiliar local food in a migrated context. The present study provides enlightenment to those who aim to investigate the consumption behavioral intentions of sojourners in the wake of the pandemic situation based on food safety and health consciousness. The findings of the current study are also applicable to general consumption patterns in the food sector.

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