Profiles of acculturative adjustment patterns among Chinese international students

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 424-436

  Wang, Kenneth T ^a   Heppner, Puncky Paul ^a   Fu, Chu Chun ^a   Zhao, Ran ^a   Li, Feihan ^a   Chuang, Chih Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturative adjustment; Coping; Growth mixture modeling; International students; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871892179     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028532     Document Type: Article

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