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.

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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  - 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  -