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Publication details [#61786]

Cao, Chun, Chang Zhu and Qian Meng. 2016. An exploratory study of inter-relationships of acculturative stressors among Chinese students from six European union (EU) countries. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 55 : 8–19.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | cultural constraint | foreign language proficiency | stress

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores the links between acculturative stressors encountered by Chinese students in six EU countries (UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain). SEM-inquiry shows that language restrictions (LR) and observed cultural contrasts (CC) vitally impact other stressors, and explain 62% of academic integration problems. LR explain 17% of daily task problems, and CC 56% of social integration difficulty.