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Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students
With the internationalisation of higher education, students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds represent a significant proportion of the university student body in Australia. Research literature indicates that the unique cultural and linguistic challenges experienced by th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8989111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00507-6 |
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author | Yu, Mong-Lin Brown, Ted Hewitt, Alana Cousland, Robert Lyons, Carissa Etherington, Jamie |
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description | With the internationalisation of higher education, students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds represent a significant proportion of the university student body in Australia. Research literature indicates that the unique cultural and linguistic challenges experienced by these students may adversely impact their academic performance and social integration in university settings. However, less is known about how the socio-emotional competencies of undergraduate CALD and non-CALD domestic English-speaking students compare. This cross-sectional quantitative study compares the emotional and social competencies in a cohort of CALD and non-CALD occupational therapy undergraduates. Data were collected at one Australian university from a group of 360 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours) course. Participants completed the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory– University edition (ESCI-U). Multivariate regression analyses were used to compare between CALD and non-CALD students, controlling for students’ year level of study, age, and gender. Key findings from the regression analysis included the observation of indicate that non-CALD students having significant higher scores than CALD students on all the ESCI-U socio-emotional subscales, especially the Emotional Self-control, Achievement Orientation, Empathy and Teamwork from western perspectives. No difference was found between CALD and non-CALD student on two cognitive competencies- systems thinking and pattern recognition. These findings should be interpreted with caution considering CALD students may interpret the questions differently and demonstrate the competencies in different ways. Specific emotional and social competencies that need to be strengthened in students are discussed and recommendations are made to inform the preparation of evidence-based curricula. |
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spelling | pubmed-89891112022-04-11 Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students Yu, Mong-Lin Brown, Ted Hewitt, Alana Cousland, Robert Lyons, Carissa Etherington, Jamie Aust Educ Res Article With the internationalisation of higher education, students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds represent a significant proportion of the university student body in Australia. Research literature indicates that the unique cultural and linguistic challenges experienced by these students may adversely impact their academic performance and social integration in university settings. However, less is known about how the socio-emotional competencies of undergraduate CALD and non-CALD domestic English-speaking students compare. This cross-sectional quantitative study compares the emotional and social competencies in a cohort of CALD and non-CALD occupational therapy undergraduates. Data were collected at one Australian university from a group of 360 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours) course. Participants completed the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory– University edition (ESCI-U). Multivariate regression analyses were used to compare between CALD and non-CALD students, controlling for students’ year level of study, age, and gender. Key findings from the regression analysis included the observation of indicate that non-CALD students having significant higher scores than CALD students on all the ESCI-U socio-emotional subscales, especially the Emotional Self-control, Achievement Orientation, Empathy and Teamwork from western perspectives. No difference was found between CALD and non-CALD student on two cognitive competencies- systems thinking and pattern recognition. These findings should be interpreted with caution considering CALD students may interpret the questions differently and demonstrate the competencies in different ways. Specific emotional and social competencies that need to be strengthened in students are discussed and recommendations are made to inform the preparation of evidence-based curricula. Springer Netherlands 2022-04-07 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8989111/ /pubmed/35431404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00507-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Yu, Mong-Lin Brown, Ted Hewitt, Alana Cousland, Robert Lyons, Carissa Etherington, Jamie Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students |
title | Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students |
title_full | Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students |
title_fullStr | Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students |
title_short | Exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: Perspectives from CALD and non-CALD students |
title_sort | exploring emotional and social competencies in undergraduate students: perspectives from cald and non-cald students |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8989111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13384-022-00507-6 |
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