Publications

Publication details [#51856]

Wang, Ying and Shaojing Sun. 2009. Examining Chinese students' Internet use and cross-cultural adaptation: does loneliness speak much? Asian Journal of Communication 19 (1) : 80–96.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | adaptation | crosscultural communication | internet | social network

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on the uses and gratifications theory and cross-cultural adaptation research, this paper explores how chronical and situational loneliness and non-loneliness affected Chinese students' Internet use and sociocultural adaptation and psychological adaptation.