Stronger Together: Educational Service Augmenters and Traditional Predictors of Adjustment for International Students in the US
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https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v11iWinter.1223Keywords:
international students, academic adjustment, social adjustment, marketing research, belonging, educational service augmentersAbstract
Drawing on frameworks from marketing research literature, this study indicates that educational service augmenters (e.g., academic advising, writing support services, immigration advising, etc.) are significantly related to international students’ academic adjustment. The results indicate educational, campus, and social support services explained an additional 38% of variance in international students’ academic adjustment, beyond traditional predictors of academic adjustment alone, i.e., language proficiency, friendships, and welcoming campus attitude, for a combined 69% of the total variance in academic adjustment. The results highlight the university’s responsibility in international student integration into local communities and how educational service augmenters and traditional predictors act as complementary, yet distinct, predictors of academic and social adjustment.
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Findlay, Allan M., David McCollum, and Helen Packwood. "Marketization, marketing and the production of international student migration." International Migration 55.3 (2017): 139-155.
Gareis, Elisabeth. “Intercultural friendship: Effects of home and host region.” Journal of Interna-tional and Intercultural Communication 5 (2012): 309-328.
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Gomez, Edwin, Alfredo Urzua, and Chris R. Glass. "International student adjustment to college: Social networks, acculturation and leisure." Journal of Park and Recreation Administration 32 (2014): 7-25.
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Trice, Andrea G., and Jin Eun Yoo. "International graduate students' perceptions of their academic experience." Journal of Research in International Education 6 (2007): 41-66.
Urban, Ewa, and Louann Bierlein Palmer. " International Students’ Perceptions of the Value of US Higher Education." Journal of International Students 6 (2016): 153-174.
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Stronger Together: Educational Service Augmenters and Traditional Predictors of Adjustment for International Students in the US. (2019). Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 11(Winter), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v11iWinter.1223
