Coping Strategies to Improve the Quality of Life among Thai Students

DOI

10.2991/acpch-18.2019.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Culture shock, coping strategies, Thai students.

Abstract

Thai Students who are getting educated in Indonesia are experiencing various circumstances such as stress due to cultural differences. This makes the students have the appropriate coping strategies to adjust themself in the face of cultural differences that are stressful. This research is a research survey conducted by spreading detailed questionnaire on a sample size of 99 Thai students in town X, Indonesia. The results obtained are that 75.8% of students experience culture shock with the percentage of male students being larger than female students. It is also found that CS experienced affects learning achievement index students, other than that based on the duration the length of stay affect coping strategies are conducted where the students stayed not long ago had a strategy of coping with high facing the CS is experienced so high CS found in students who have already live longer in Indonesia. We also found that coping strategy that focuses on emotions can have significant effects against CS.

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© 2019, 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  - Fikrhatul Fitriyah Musthafa
AU  - Annisa Baitina
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Coping Strategies to Improve the Quality of Life among Thai Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 81
EP  - 85
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/acpch-18.2019.20
DO  - 10.2991/acpch-18.2019.20
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