Exploring the Emotions of Single International Students in Hong Kong Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10iS3.3201Keywords:
COVID-19 pandemic, Emotional Geography, international students’ experiences, narrative inquiryAbstract
This narrative study aims to explore the emotional experiences of international students in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data in this study were garnered from the results of interviews with two single female students who were completing their doctoral studies at a public university in Hong Kong. We analyzed the interview data thematically with the Hargreaves’s emotional geography framework (2001a, 2001b). Findings showed that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the emotional experience of international students in terms of the dissertation guidance process, psychological mental state, relationships with family, finance, and spirituality. This empirical evidence may provide new insight into the role of emotionality in the completion of postgraduate studies during the uncertain and worrying pandemic.
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Heng, T. T. (2020). “Chinese themselves are changing”: Why we need alternative perspective of Chinese international students. Journal of International Students, 10(2), 539-545. DOI: 10.32674/jis.v10i2.958
James, N. (2018). Using narrative inquiry to explore the experience of one ethnically diverse ESL nursing student. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 13(1), 35-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.teln.2017.08.002
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Laufer, M., & Gorup, M. (2019). The invisible others: Stories of international doctoral student dropout. Higher Education, 78, 165–181. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-018-0337
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Lim, N. (2016). Cultural differences in emotion: Differences in emotional arousal level between the East and the West. Integrative Medicine Research, 5(2), 105-109. DOI: 10.1016/j.imr.2016.03.004
Ma, T., Heywood, A., & MacIntyre, C. R. (2020). Travel health risk perception of Chinese international students in Australia – Implication of Covid-19. Infection, Disease & Health, 25(3), 197-204. DOI: 10.1016/j.idh.2020.03.002
Mechili, E. A., Saliaj, A., Kamberi, F., Girvalaki, C., Peto, E., Patelarou, A. E., Bucaj, J., & Patelarou, E. (2020). Is the mental health of the young students and their family members affected during the quarantine period? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Albania. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Terbit pertama online (hlm. 1-9). DOI: 10.1111/JPM.12672
Mostafa, H., & Lim, Y. (2020). Examining the relationship between motivation and resilience in different international students group attending U.S. universities. Journal of International Students, 10(2), 306-319. DOI: 10.32674/jis.v10i2.603
Nieto, A. (2016). Essential e‐mentors’ characteristics for mentoring online doctoral dissertations: Faculty views. Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, 6(4), 35-68. DOI: 10.1002/jpoc.21204
Schreiber, J. B., & Asner-Self, K. (2011). Educational research: The interrelationship of questions, sampling, design, and analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. (2020). Situation on public hospitals and confirmed cases. Diakses tanggal 14 Oktober 2020, https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/index.html
Webster, L., & Mertova, P. (2007). Using narrative inquiry as a research method: An introduction to using critical event narrative analysis in research on learning and teaching. London: Routledge.
Widodo, H. P. (2014). Methodological considerations in interview data transcription. International Journal of Innovation in English Language Teaching and Research, 3(1), 101-109.
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Exploring the Emotions of Single International Students in Hong Kong Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020). Journal of International Students, 10(S3), 91-107. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v10iS3.3201
