The Incidence of Study-Related Stress in International Students in the Initial Stage of the International Sojourn
By Lorraine Brown. 2008
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This article explores the incidence of stress in international students in relation to the requirements of an international master's programme. The data presented here were taken from a doctoral ethnographic study of the adaptation of international postgraduate students to life in the United Kingdom, involving individual interviews with 13 students during the academic year 2003-2004 as well as participant observation of the entire cohort of 150 masters students. It is suggested that stress related to the academic task is caused by academic cultural differences, particularly in regard to critical evaluation and participation in discussion in class, and by language ability. This study shows that stress is intense at the beginning of the academic programme and declines gradually as a function of a reduction in the academic workload rather than as a function of time.
Subfields: Communication, Education, Political Science and International Relations
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- Understanding the experiences of female doctoral students (2010, background): “There was a clear association between stress and doctoral study, as acknowledged by several writers (e.g. Nerad and Cerny 1999; Chesterman 2001; Deem and Brehony 2000; Leonard 2001; Thanacoody et al. 2006; Brown 2008): You just survive each day, don’t you?”