How Does Acculturation Stress Adjustment To College And Levels Of Mental Health Impact Help Seeking Attitudes In International Students

Download or read book How Does Acculturation Stress, Adjustment to College, and Levels of Mental Health Impact Help-seeking Attitudes in International Students written by Elena Cela and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: In the U.S, there are currently 19,828,000 international students emanating from many places around the world, and they make up 5.5 percent of the total U.S higher education population (Institute of International Education, 2018). Given the barriers that the majority of international students face, including acculturation stress, level of support, language barriers, mental health, and college adjustment, the current study aimed to look at the collective population of international students studying in the United States to identify how acculturation stress, college adjustment, mental health, and levels of support impact their help-seeking attitudes in hope to provide more information on how we can best serve the international student population on college campuses. This study was designed to determine if acculturation stress, adjustment to college, and mental health are associated with help-seeking attitudes in international students. Four universities were contacted to participate in the study, but only two responded, resulting in a total of 19 surveys started and 14 fully completed from international students at Springfield College and the University of Hartford. Seven of those who completed the survey identified as female and seven as male. In the overall survey, there were eight students from China, two from Nepal, two from Canada, and the rest from Russia, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Kuwait, India, and South Africa. Of these students, six attended classes from their home countries, and eight attended in the USA. Given the limited responses to the study, we could not obtain generalizable information. However, the study did find that international female-identified individuals may experience more mental health challenges than their male counterparts. Future avenues for this study can include working with more universities to expand the sample size and the diversity of students involved.