Social networking and adjustments among international students

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-440

  Lin, Jih Hsuan ^a   Peng, Wei ^b   Kim, Mijung ^b   Kim, Sung Yeun ^c   LaRose, Robert ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustments; cultural differences; extroversion; Facebook; horizontal collectivism; international students; social capital; social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859881172     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811418627     Document Type: Article

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