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The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review

With the accelerating process of globalisation, studying abroad has gradually become a common phenomenon. China is the world's largest source of international students, and Chinese students’ adaptation to a foreign country has always been the focus of scholars. Although Chinese students have be...

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Main Authors: Zhao, Wenwen, Osman, Mohd Nizam, Omar, Siti Zobidah, Yaakup, Hani Salwah
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Published: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2023
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109534/
https://journal.unisza.edu.my/apj/index.php/apj/article/view/391
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1095342024-12-17T02:57:38Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109534/ The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review Zhao, Wenwen Osman, Mohd Nizam Omar, Siti Zobidah Yaakup, Hani Salwah With the accelerating process of globalisation, studying abroad has gradually become a common phenomenon. China is the world's largest source of international students, and Chinese students’ adaptation to a foreign country has always been the focus of scholars. Although Chinese students have become the second-largest group of international students in Malaysia, few studies concentrated on the cross-cultural adaptation of this group in Malaysia. This literature review further confirms this situation. From 2010 to 2021, only 14 articles were obtained through both Google Scholar and Scopus databases and manual search. Among the limited literature,4 articles took Chinese international students as samples. In other research, the samples were international students from all over the world, and Chinese students only accounted for a part. Moreover, most of the studies only selected samples from one location, affecting the results' representative. In addition, the research topic was relatively unitary; the 14 studies mainly discussed the factors affecting the cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese students in Malaysia and suggested suggestions to improve their adaptation. In terms of research design, 12 articles applied a cross-sectional survey but onlyinvolved independent and dependent variables without moderating or mediating variables; the research framework was relatively simple. However, cross-sectional studies cannot determine causal relationships between variables and are insufficient to show the dynamic process of cross-cultural adaptation. On this basis, some suggestions for future research are put forward. Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2023-04-27 Article PeerReviewed Zhao, Wenwen and Osman, Mohd Nizam and Omar, Siti Zobidah and Yaakup, Hani Salwah (2023) The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review. Asian People Journal, 6 (1). pp. 66-81. ISSN 2600-8971 https://journal.unisza.edu.my/apj/index.php/apj/article/view/391 10.37231/apj.2023.6.1.391
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description With the accelerating process of globalisation, studying abroad has gradually become a common phenomenon. China is the world's largest source of international students, and Chinese students’ adaptation to a foreign country has always been the focus of scholars. Although Chinese students have become the second-largest group of international students in Malaysia, few studies concentrated on the cross-cultural adaptation of this group in Malaysia. This literature review further confirms this situation. From 2010 to 2021, only 14 articles were obtained through both Google Scholar and Scopus databases and manual search. Among the limited literature,4 articles took Chinese international students as samples. In other research, the samples were international students from all over the world, and Chinese students only accounted for a part. Moreover, most of the studies only selected samples from one location, affecting the results' representative. In addition, the research topic was relatively unitary; the 14 studies mainly discussed the factors affecting the cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese students in Malaysia and suggested suggestions to improve their adaptation. In terms of research design, 12 articles applied a cross-sectional survey but onlyinvolved independent and dependent variables without moderating or mediating variables; the research framework was relatively simple. However, cross-sectional studies cannot determine causal relationships between variables and are insufficient to show the dynamic process of cross-cultural adaptation. On this basis, some suggestions for future research are put forward.
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author Zhao, Wenwen
Osman, Mohd Nizam
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Yaakup, Hani Salwah
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Osman, Mohd Nizam
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Yaakup, Hani Salwah
The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review
author_facet Zhao, Wenwen
Osman, Mohd Nizam
Omar, Siti Zobidah
Yaakup, Hani Salwah
author_sort Zhao, Wenwen
title The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review
title_short The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review
title_full The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review
title_fullStr The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review
title_full_unstemmed The cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students in Malaysia: a systematic review
title_sort cross-cultural adaptation of chinese international students in malaysia: a systematic review
publisher Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
publishDate 2023
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/109534/
https://journal.unisza.edu.my/apj/index.php/apj/article/view/391
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