Qadeer Talat, Javed Muhammad Kashif, Manzoor Aqsa, Wu Min, Zaman Syed Imran
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Department of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 13;12:667230. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667230. eCollection 2021.
Prior studies on the experiences of international students in China have mostly focused on their academic, sociocultural, and accommodation experiences. Hence, student health and safety, discrimination, and the services by the International Student Office (ISO) have remained unexplored. Moreover, due to the motivational differences between the students from developing and developed regions, a study that samples students from both regions may depict an exact picture of the experience of international students. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the influence of the dimensions (including those dimensions that have been ignored) of the experience of international students on their satisfaction. In addition, we make recommendations regarding Chinese institutes for future students based on a comparison between the students from developing and developed regions. Using hierarchical regression analysis, this study reveals that educational and non-educational experiences vary among students from different regions. Therefore, based on developing (e.g., Asia and Africa) and developed (e.g., America, Europe, and Australia) regions, important recommendations are discussed regarding how educational institutions and the Chinese government could best allocate resources and introduce policies to improve the experience of international students.
此前关于在中国的国际学生经历的研究大多集中在他们的学术、社会文化和住宿体验上。因此，学生的健康与安全、歧视以及国际学生办公室（ISO）提供的服务仍未得到探讨。此外，由于来自发展中地区和发达地区的学生动机存在差异，一项对来自这两个地区的学生进行抽样的研究可能会准确描绘出国际学生的经历情况。因此，本研究的目的是考察国际学生经历的各个维度（包括那些被忽视的维度）对其满意度的影响。此外，我们通过比较来自发展中地区和发达地区的学生，为中国院校向未来的学生提出建议。本研究使用层次回归分析表明，不同地区的学生在教育和非教育经历方面存在差异。因此，基于发展中地区（如亚洲和非洲）和发达地区（如美洲、欧洲和澳大利亚），讨论了关于教育机构和中国政府如何最好地分配资源并出台政策以改善国际学生经历的重要建议。
