Social Skills Difficulty: Model of Culture Shock for International Graduate Students

By Raquel Faria Chapdelaine, Louise R. Alexitch. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Culture Shock and Social Support: An Investigation of a Chinese Student Organization on a US Campus (2006, background): “Furthermore, this process helps to promote global understanding, mutual trade, and international relationships (Chapdelaine & Alexitch, 2004).”
• The Effects of English Language Proficiency on Adjustment to University Life (2009, background): “Students interact less with their hosts if they perceive that cultural differences are great, but experience less culture shock if they do interact ( Chapdelaine & Alexitch, 2004 ).”
• Success factors for international postgraduate students' adjustment: exploring the roles of intercultural competence, language proficiency, social contact and social support (2013, background): “…plays an important role, but have also found that such contact is usually largely instrumental rather than emotionally supportive (Rohrlich and Martin 1991; Al-Sharideh and Goe 1998; Chapdelaine and Alexitch 2004; Parks and Raymond 2004; Zhao, Kuh, and Carini 2005; Burke, Watkins, and Guzman 2009).”