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Designing an acculturation scale for Malaysian students in Japan universities

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Main Authors: Ina Suryani, Ab Rahim, Hazry, Desa, Dr., Intan Maslina
Other Authors: inasuryani@unimap.edu.my
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: INTI College 2013
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Adaptation
International Students
Japan
Malaysian
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/29830
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spelling my.unimap-298302017-11-29T05:08:42Z Designing an acculturation scale for Malaysian students in Japan universities Ina Suryani, Ab Rahim Hazry, Desa, Dr. Intan Maslina inasuryani@unimap.edu.my Adaptation International Students Japan Malaysian Link to publisher's homepage at http://newinti.edu.my/ Adjustment to a new culture is crucial psychological and behavioural process among international students. Adaptation supports the performance and functioning of these students. Failure to adapt to the changes in the new environment would tax on the psychological wellbeing, exhaust the students and strain the academic performance. Acculturation is one the important moderating factor for adaptation and studies have shown that it may affect the academic performance amongst the international students. Acculturation can be assessed by measuring the assimilation into the host culture and retention of the origin culture. The western acculturation models have developed to a comprehensive description and from these models and acculturation scales have been created. This paper look into the relevant construct from the existing acculturation scales such as Indonesian Acculturating Scale (IARS) proposed by Hondojo (2000) and Acculturative scale for Asian (ASA) by Kim (2001). The items derived from these acculturation scales are pooled and then tested on 30 Asian International students in Islamic International University (IIU), Malaysia. Findings show that some of the items for the scale are significant. Further interview brings on a possible extension on the theory of acculturation strategy; which is a possibility of an Alternative culture in addition to the two suggested by the western research. It is hope that this study would support effective counselling by suggesting evidence in avoiding generalization and stereotyping of western cases in the counselling, orientation and intervention programs for Malaysian students in Japan Universities. 2013-11-15T03:18:28Z 2013-11-15T03:18:28Z 2007 Article The Journal of INTI International Education Group, Special Issue on Teaching and Learning, 2007, pages 105-109 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/29830 en INTI College
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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topic Adaptation
International Students
Japan
Malaysian
spellingShingle Adaptation
International Students
Japan
Malaysian
Ina Suryani, Ab Rahim
Hazry, Desa, Dr.
Intan Maslina
Designing an acculturation scale for Malaysian students in Japan universities
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Hazry, Desa, Dr.
Intan Maslina
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Intan Maslina
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title_short Designing an acculturation scale for Malaysian students in Japan universities
title_full Designing an acculturation scale for Malaysian students in Japan universities
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