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" Reverse Acculturative Stress among Saudi Students Returning from the United States to Saudi Arabia "
Alkhalaf, Khulud
Elbedour, Salman
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1051941
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TL51058
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Alkhalaf, Khulud
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Reverse Acculturative Stress among Saudi Students Returning from the United States to Saudi Arabia\ Alkhalaf, KhuludElbedour, Salman
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Howard University
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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118 p.
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While much research has been done on acculturative stress in higher education, particularly among international students (Furnham, 2004), studies of reverse acculturative stress are much less common (Mooradian, 2004). Yet reverse acculturative stress can have negative effects on the mental health of students returning home after time in a foreign country. Due in large part to the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP), Saudi Arabia is the fourth-largest source country for international students, after China, India, and South Korea (Redden, 2016); the vast majority of KASP students study in the United States. Reverse culture shock upon returning home is a very real, documentable phenomenon that affects the psychological, social, and economic well-being of thousands of young Saudis, both male and female. Using Pavot and Deiner’s (1993) Satisfaction with Life Scale, Schalock, Keith’s (1993) Quality of Life Questionnaire, and other measures, this study explored reverse acculturative stress among Saudi student returnees to determine the relationship between reverse cultural shock and quality of life, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affectivity. Data showed that 72 of 96 participants experienced reverse cultural shock after returning home. Further, returnees who reported greater problems in readjustment shock scored significantly lower on various indices of psychological adaptation and reported higher negative affectivity. Significantly, t-test analyses showed that female returnees scored higher on reverse cultural shock and experienced lower degrees of Satisfaction with Life, Quality of Life, and lower on negative affectivity compared to male students. Results also showed a significant relationship between identification with Saudi heritage culture and the level of reverse cultural shock, but no significant correlation between identification with the U.S. host culture and the level of reverse cultural shock.
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Educational psychology
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Elbedour, Salman
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Howard University
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