THE APPLICATION OF SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a statistical analysis of empirical facts obtained on the basis of the implementation of the author's program of social and psychological support of foreign students’ intercultural adaptation. The main directions of the program are: the development of social and personal skills, the overcoming of the negative phenomena, the development of social and psychological characteristics of a foreign student’s personality. Statistical analysis revealed significant changes in the social and psychological aspects of foreign students’ intercultural adaptation on the basis of the application of support program: situational anxiety, subjective well-being, cultural distance, ethnic tolerance, culture shock, affective component of ethnic identity, adaptability, interactivity, depression, estrangement.

Keywords

• intercultural adaptation
• social-psychological support
• culture shock
• ethnic tolerance
• ethnic identity
• cultural distance
• subjective wellbeing
• anxiety