Social support and cultural distance: Sojourners’ experience in China
| Autor: | Alexander S. English, Rongtian Tong, Yan Bing Zhang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Regression analysis Social support Psychological adaptation Perception medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Business and International Management medicine.symptom Adaptation (computer science) Psychology Association (psychology) China Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 80:349-358 |
| ISSN: | 0147-1767 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.10.006 |
| Popis: | Previous research has pinpointed that social support from host, co-national, and other international friends plays a pivotal role in successful adaptation to a new culture, yet research on this topic pertaining to China is inadequate. As such, using a cross-sectional sample of sojourners (N = 199) in major Chinese cities, the current study examines the relationship between sojourners’ self-reports of social support from the three sources and two psychological adaptation variables (i.e., anxiety and well-being) as well as the moderating effect of objective cultural distance. Regression analysis indicates that perceptions of host and international support are significant negative predictors of anxiety and positive predictors of psychological well-being. In addition, cultural distance moderated these predictive associations: host support and international support had a stronger negative association with anxiety and host support had a stronger positive association with well-being for participants whose cultural distance to China was lower compared to those whose cultural distance was higher. This study enhances our understanding of the dynamic interplay between social support and cultural distance in cross-cultural adaptation research within a Chinese cultural context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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