caa a22 4500 477037585 CHVBK 20180405111309.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00114787 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00114787 Lewthwaite Malcolm International Pacific College, Private Bag 11021, Palmerston North, New Zealand aut A study of international students' perspectives on cross-cultural adaptation [Elektronische Daten] [Malcolm Lewthwaite] The aim of this study was to discover and describe how international students experience and adapt to their new academic, social, cultural and linguistic environment. Questionnaires were given to 12 post-graduate students and interviews conducted on the basis of the responses. It might be expected, given the range of "culture shock” literature which often presumes the stressful and even pathological nature of cross-cultural transitions, that international students from cultures very different to that found in New Zealand would report high levels of frustration, stress and even depression. While most reported on obstacles to integration as being loneliness, mismatch of culture, frustration with the lack of deep integration with New Zealanders as well as irritation with aspects of their host culture, there was not a high level of stress reported. The greatest block to adaptation was lack of intercultural communicative competence. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 19/2(1996-06-01), 167-185 0165-0653 19:2<167 1996 19 10447 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114787 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00114787 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lewthwaite Malcolm International Pacific College, Private Bag 11021, Palmerston North, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 19/2(1996-06-01), 167-185 0165-0653 19:2<167 1996 19 10447 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer