Investigating Socio-Cultural Adaptation of International Students in Indonesian Higher Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201021.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

international students, Indonesian higher education, socio-cultural adaptation, intercultural sensitivity, correlation

Abstract

Positioning higher education in some degree of international standard has been done by many governments by setting internationalization agenda through various programs. In realizing the agenda, challenges emerge since students joining the program – the international students – need to adapt not only to academic but also social life. Adjusting to a new socio-cultural environment is intriguing for there are just too many factors playing roles in human social interaction. The challenge escalates when multicultural issues take part in the society in which the interaction takes place. Many studies have been conducted to analyze multicultural interactions in human social life. Some perimeters have also been developed to facilitate the analysis. However, very limited studies are conducted in Indonesian context which is rich of multicultural interaction. Thus, this study is aimed at investigating international students’ socio-cultural adaptation in Indonesia when they are studying at Indonesian higher education. Focusing on the correlation between their intercultural sensitivity and their socio-cultural adaptation, the study reveals that there was less significant relationship between the variables. As further investigation were conducted to find possible reason of such relationship, it was found out that two out of five factors constructing the intercultural sensitivity scale did not show significant relationship to the variable while all the five factors constructing socio-cultural adaptation scale were significantly related. Therefore, re-visiting the intercultural sensitivity scale is suggested.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yulia Hapsari
AU  - Hamamah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/22
TI  - Investigating Socio-Cultural Adaptation of International Students in Indonesian Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the Brawijaya International Conference on Multidisciplinary Sciences and Technology (BICMST 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 180
EP  - 184
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201021.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201021.042
ID  - Hapsari2020
ER  -