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Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students
There is an array of reasons why acculturation can be stressful, and acculturative stress can be triggered by a plethora of factors. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with acculturative stress among international students enrolled in a public medical university from Romania. 26...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685456 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2564725 |
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author | Iorga, Magdalena Soponaru, Camelia Muraru, Iulia-Diana Socolov, Sofia Petrariu, Florin-Dumitru |
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description | There is an array of reasons why acculturation can be stressful, and acculturative stress can be triggered by a plethora of factors. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with acculturative stress among international students enrolled in a public medical university from Romania. 265 students were included in the research. Sociodemographic, academic, and family data, comfortability with living in study city, satisfaction with administrative staff, colleagues, and professors and Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students were gathered. Data have been processed using SPSS Statistics v23.0.0 for MAC.OSX. Female students are more prone to experience homesickness and stress due to change compared to male students. International students with Romanian origins had lower scores on perceived hate and stress due to change/culture shock compared to those with no Romanian origins. Students with relatives or friends enrolled in the same university had significantly lower levels of acculturative stress, perceived discrimination, perceived hate/rejection, and general/nonspecific concerns. Age and year of study are associated with homesickness and stress due to change/culture shock. The existence of factors associated with acculturative stress demand institutional, social, and psychological support for international students. |
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spelling | pubmed-73275932020-07-17 Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students Iorga, Magdalena Soponaru, Camelia Muraru, Iulia-Diana Socolov, Sofia Petrariu, Florin-Dumitru Biomed Res Int Research Article There is an array of reasons why acculturation can be stressful, and acculturative stress can be triggered by a plethora of factors. The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with acculturative stress among international students enrolled in a public medical university from Romania. 265 students were included in the research. Sociodemographic, academic, and family data, comfortability with living in study city, satisfaction with administrative staff, colleagues, and professors and Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students were gathered. Data have been processed using SPSS Statistics v23.0.0 for MAC.OSX. Female students are more prone to experience homesickness and stress due to change compared to male students. International students with Romanian origins had lower scores on perceived hate and stress due to change/culture shock compared to those with no Romanian origins. Students with relatives or friends enrolled in the same university had significantly lower levels of acculturative stress, perceived discrimination, perceived hate/rejection, and general/nonspecific concerns. Age and year of study are associated with homesickness and stress due to change/culture shock. The existence of factors associated with acculturative stress demand institutional, social, and psychological support for international students. Hindawi 2020-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7327593/ /pubmed/32685456 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2564725 Text en Copyright © 2020 Magdalena Iorga et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Iorga, Magdalena Soponaru, Camelia Muraru, Iulia-Diana Socolov, Sofia Petrariu, Florin-Dumitru Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students |
title | Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students |
title_full | Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students |
title_fullStr | Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students |
title_short | Factors Associated with Acculturative Stress among International Medical Students |
title_sort | factors associated with acculturative stress among international medical students |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327593/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685456 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2564725 |
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