Marella, Bianca;
Prasetyawati, Wuri;
(2020)
Adjustment to College Work and Its Relationship With Psychological Distress in International Students at the University of Indonesia.
Jurnal Psikologi
, 19
(3)
pp. 286-296.
10.14710/jp.19.3.286-296.
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Abstract
Relocation can be a challenging and stressful experience for most international students. The demands of cultural adjustments frequently place international students at greater risk for various psychological problems than students in general. This research aims to describe the relationship between adjustment to college work problems and psychological distress. A cross-sectional survey with a self-completion questionnaire was conducted in a convenience sample of international students in Universitas Indonesia. Using convenience sampling, 107 international students (51.4% male, mean age = 25.7 years, SD = 5.65) completed the Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-25 (HSCL-25), a measurement of psychological distress, and the Mooney Problem Checklist – Adjustment to College Work scale as a measurement of adjustment to college work. Using the HSCL-25 score 1.75 as a cut-off, 28 participants (26.2%) reports a high psychological distress level. Pearson correlation demonstrates that there is no significant correlation between adjustment to college work problems and psychological distress. Further analysis for each adjustment-problem item was carried out to explore specific academic problems faced by international students. We found that the problems “Worrying about examination” (r = .194, p < .05) and “Fearing in failure in college” (r = .218 p < .05) were significantly associated with psychological distress. It is advisable for education institutions that accept international students to provide academic counselors or train local students to help international students.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Adjustment to College Work and Its Relationship With Psychological Distress in International Students at the University of Indonesia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14710/jp.19.3.286-296 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14710/jp.19.3.286-296 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Psikologi by http://ejournal.undip.ac.id/index.php/psikologi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |
| Keywords: | adjustment to college work; psychological distress; international students; Universitas Indonesia; HSCL-25 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208982 |
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