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100 1 Guclu, Nezahat
245 10 A study to identify and analyze international graduate
students' adjustment problems at the University of
Pittsburgh|h[electronic resource]
300 175 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-
05, Section: A, page: 1153
500 Adviser: Seth J. Spaulding
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1993
520 This study examined the adjustment problems of
international graduate students attending the University
of Pittsburgh and coping strategies and sources of help
utilized by those students in their efforts to deal with
the problems they face. Differences among students were
examined by gender, age, marital status, and geographical
region, academic level, major field, English proficiency,
and sources of financial support. The data were collected
using the Michigan International Student Problem Inventory
(MISPI) and three additional open-ended questions. The
sample comprised 293 international graduate students from
90 countries attending University of Pittsburgh in Spring
term, 1993
520 The major findings of the study were: (1) international
graduate students reported having the most difficulties in
English language and financial aid of the eleven problem
areas of the MISPI sub-scales; (2) female students
experienced significantly more problems in the health
services and the academic records areas than male
counterparts; (3) there were significant differences among
the students from the five geographical regions in all
problem areas except placement services. European students
reported fewer problems than the remaining four regional
groups in all the problem areas; (4) in the admission-
selection area, the students majoring in Humanities
experienced significantly more problems than other groups;
(5) master's students reported having significantly more
problems than doctoral students in the admission-selection,
academic records, social-personal, living-dining, and
English language areas; (6) the students who had high
English proficiency scores experienced significantly fewer
problems than those who had low English proficiency
scores; (7) the students sponsored by their home
governments experienced significantly more problems with
orientation services, academic records, social-personal,
living-dining, religious services, and English language
than respondents in other groups; (8) coping strategies
utilized by international students in adjusting were:
writing letters to home, telephone calls to home, speaking
to Americans, finding close friendships, taking illegal
off-campus jobs, and obtaining loans from friends; and (9)
the family was the most helpful in solving their
adjustment problems
590 School code: 0178
650 4 Education, Administration
650 4 Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
650 4 Education, General
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