RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics (Dec 2013)
Cross-Cultural Adaptation Specifics in Arabic Students Considering Stressful Situation In Native Country
Abstract
The article is devoted to studying the characteristics of adaptation to the new socio-cultural environment in connection with a long-acting stressful situation caused by the military and political events occurring in the homeland. It analyzes the activity-passivity specifics of the Arabic young men and women in the process of cross-cultural adaptation, as well as the display of aggressiveness as a confrontational defensive reaction in the adaptation of Arabic students studying in the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.