Predictors of cultural adjustment: Intergroup status relations and boundary permeability

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 249-264

  Terry, Deborah J ^a   Pelly, Rebecca N ^a   Lalonde, Richard N ^b   Smith, Joanne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross cultural adjustment; International students; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645472654     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206062080     Document Type: Article

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