Acculturative Stress Among Asian Students in Australia

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ID11228628
AuthorsMary C Hodgkin (corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume13
Issue2
Pages139-150
Publication date1978-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.1839-4655.1978.tb00625.x
OpenAlexW2266508451
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

When foreign students from Southeast Asia come to Australia, they encounter many problems of norm conflict and cultural misunderstanding. In some cases these stresses, together with academic failure, social isolation and the strains of living in lodgings away from the supportive family, lead to emotional disturbances. Students fall into a different category from migrants. They must make a selection from the host cultural norms and exercise restraint in identification with Australian ways because they face eventual return to their home sociocultural environment. Examples from a number of case histories have been chosen. They appear to follow a regular pattern of academic failure, inability to cope with relationships with the opposite sex, and eventual mental breakdown which required hospitalization

Acculturation · Ethnic group · Face (sociological concept · Isolation (microbiology · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Social isolation · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology

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