The Contributions of Culture-Shock to Open-Mindedness for International Students in Engineering and Social Science College in Taiwan
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.248How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Culture shock, Stress, Coping Strategy
- Abstract
This research purpose to figure out culture shock and recognize varied stressors that could affect culture shock between international scholars. The various coping strategies used by different cultures to cope with culture shock are also to be identified. A semi-structured interview pattern was used to interview six international scholars at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology who have finally finished their second semester. They were interviewed to recognize the stressors that make them stress within the first month of their coming in the foreign nation. Their coping strategy to cope with stress is defined too. The same interview questions were repeated to determine the change in the stress levels and coping strategies in their current situation. Stages of culture shock were identified and analyzed from the interviews. The five factors, as identified by the researcher, were put forth to the interviewees to observe their views on these factors that would help them to moderate the effects of stress. The elements that could affect nervous tension are perceived differently, and it varies within the education level.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Radna Andi Wibowo AU - Ming-Chang Wu PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/03 TI - The Contributions of Culture-Shock to Open-Mindedness for International Students in Engineering and Social Science College in Taiwan BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1467 EP - 1472 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.248 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.248 ID - Wibowo2020 ER -