Predicting Asian international students' sociocultural adjustment: A test of two mediation models

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 561-576

  Li, Andrew ^a,b   Gasser, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural contact; Ethnic identity; Self efficacy; Sociocultural adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944480087     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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