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“Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States
The number of NCAA international student-athletes (ISAs) on US college campuses has increased to upwards of 20,000. This current study sought to investigate their transition experiences into colleges, based on the ISA transition adjustment model. More specifically, this study sought to better unders...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10042176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36993899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103194 |
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author | Swim, Nicholas Lee, Youngjik Hums, Mary A. |
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description | The number of NCAA international student-athletes (ISAs) on US college campuses has increased to upwards of 20,000. This current study sought to investigate their transition experiences into colleges, based on the ISA transition adjustment model. More specifically, this study sought to better understand how recent changes in the NCAA have impacted the ISA population and if the antecedent factors in the transition adjustment model (personal, inter-personal, perceptual, and cultural distance) still represent the best indicators of successful transition for ISAs. To conduct this study, semi-structured interviews were completed with 10 current and former female Division I ISAs from six separate schools and seven countries. The results from this study suggest the core antecedents of the model – personal, inter-personal, perceptual, and cultural distance – were all still relevant. However, the factors included among these antecedents have shifted over time, with this study finding the importance of faculty and students (inter-personal) and nutrition (cultural distance) as significant factors in the transition of ISAs into US colleges. The results provide insights to administrators of US college athletics regarding how to help international student-athletes’ adaptation. |
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spelling | pubmed-100421762023-03-28 “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States Swim, Nicholas Lee, Youngjik Hums, Mary A. Front Psychol Psychology The number of NCAA international student-athletes (ISAs) on US college campuses has increased to upwards of 20,000. This current study sought to investigate their transition experiences into colleges, based on the ISA transition adjustment model. More specifically, this study sought to better understand how recent changes in the NCAA have impacted the ISA population and if the antecedent factors in the transition adjustment model (personal, inter-personal, perceptual, and cultural distance) still represent the best indicators of successful transition for ISAs. To conduct this study, semi-structured interviews were completed with 10 current and former female Division I ISAs from six separate schools and seven countries. The results from this study suggest the core antecedents of the model – personal, inter-personal, perceptual, and cultural distance – were all still relevant. However, the factors included among these antecedents have shifted over time, with this study finding the importance of faculty and students (inter-personal) and nutrition (cultural distance) as significant factors in the transition of ISAs into US colleges. The results provide insights to administrators of US college athletics regarding how to help international student-athletes’ adaptation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10042176/ /pubmed/36993899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103194 Text en Copyright © 2023 Swim, Lee and Hums. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Swim, Nicholas Lee, Youngjik Hums, Mary A. “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States |
title | “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States |
title_full | “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States |
title_fullStr | “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States |
title_full_unstemmed | “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States |
title_short | “Sorry, I’m not from here!”: Female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the United States |
title_sort | “sorry, i’m not from here!”: female international student-athletes’ transitions into college athletics in the united states |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10042176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36993899 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103194 |
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