Resilience and Well-Being Among International Students During Acculturation Process: Blogging Without Borders
Resilience and Well-Being Among International Students During Acculturation Process: Blogging Without Borders
Author(s): Andreea ValenteSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitară & ADI Publication
Keywords: international students; Erasmus Program; resilience; blog narratives; acculturation; cross-cultural communication; complex adaptive system; cultural convergence; worldview
Summary/Abstract: This article explores eight personal blog narratives by Erasmus students who post about their cross-cultural experiences while studying in a foreign country. The study defends that international students can develop coping mechanisms and resilience when facing acculturative stressors during adaptation process in a host country. Thus, it analyzes students’ narratives to verify how they can cope with cross-cultural stressors in their everyday through discursive and non-discursive strategies. This study relies on an integrated view of discourse analysis inspired by concepts from Complex Adaptive System and ecology of composition
Journal: International Journal of Cross-Cultural Studies and Environmental Communication
- Issue Year: 6/2017
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 12-22
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
