international students: three social adaptability types
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International Students: Three Social Adaptability Types
Beatrice D’Alimonte
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A provider of training solutions and resources to advance inclusion and
success of international students
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Highlights of the Research
● The study identifies three categories of social
adaptability styles of students: confident
optimists, appreciative optimists, and
apprehensive optimists
● The study finds out that acculturation processes
for graduate students may differ by gender,
cultural discrepancies between the country of
origin and the host country.4
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Suggestions
1. Enhancing international student programs with training, workshops, and resources that help students build “social, cultural and communicative competencies”
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Suggestions
2. Creating and/or improving the quality of international student orientation programs by providing information about acculturation processes
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Suggestions
3. Creating opportunities for social interaction between international graduate students and host country graduate students
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Suggestions
4. Developing gender-specific group discussion programs
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