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- Title
Meaning making as a moderator in international students' acculturative experience.
- Authors
Luz, Heyde; Thomas, John
- Abstract
International students (IS) face unique challenges when attending higher education institutions in the United States that derive from acculturative stress and contribute to feelings of loneliness and depressive symptoms. This study examined the sense of meaning as a moderator in the relationship between acculturative stress, loneliness, and depressive symptoms in IS. A quantitative research design using a linear multiple regression model was employed to investigate the interplay between the variables. The findings of 80 participants indicated that there is a significant relationship between acculturative stress, loneliness, and depressive symptoms. The results also indicate that a sense of meaning moderated the relationship between acculturative stress and depressive symptoms. These results may assist counselor educators, mental health clinicians, and higher education administrators to better serve the IS population. Practitioner points: Acculturative stress significantly impacted international student's experience in higher education.There is a significant relationship between acculturative stress, loneliness, and depressive symptoms. Sense of meaning significantly impacted the relationship between acculturative stress and depressive symptoms.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LONELINESS; ACCULTURATION; FOREIGN students; COUNSELOR educators; MENTAL depression; SCHOOL administrators
- Publication
Psychology in the Schools, 2023, Vol 60, Issue 11, p4602
- ISSN
0033-3085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pits.23014