The aim of this thesis lies in not just studying stress Chinese students suffer from adaptation to academic life in South Korea but suggesting a program that helps them deal with problems caused during university life in Korea. It also suggests anothe...
The aim of this thesis lies in not just studying stress Chinese students suffer from adaptation to academic life in South Korea but suggesting a program that helps them deal with problems caused during university life in Korea. It also suggests another program that relieve the stress they have accumulated in the course of adaptation to academic life.
Chapter 2 defines what cultural adaptation stress chinese students in Korean universities is and explains current situations in which chinese students have been suffering during their lives in Korea by referring and using various studies concerned with this thesis. According to those studies, about 20 percent of the chinese students surveyed have experienced depression, sadness, and loneliness caused by circumstances in which they can hardly release their stress, which suggests a program that help them cope with their problems in adapting to Korean culture and university lives.
Chapter 3 analyzes the result of cultural adaptation stress survey. According to the results, chinese students have difficulty adapting due to not doing any social activities and religious activities. The reason not many chinese students do religious activities in Korea is comprehensible. it is not easy for them to have religion in a different culture and country because religion is compound of cultural, social, mental, and individual elements. The problem, however, is that chinese students do not get involved in club activities, which means that they do not use beneficial club activities that can help decrease their cultural adaptation stress. In addition, club activities can be used a way that diminish bias or discrimination chinese students feel.
Chapter 4 suggests two programs: One is cultural adaptation program, The other stress-relieving program. The two programs function as follow. They make chinese students understand what culture is and what the differences between two cultures are. After studying about cultures, cultural adaptation program provides chinese students with opportunities to experience living in some Korean families in order to make chinese students know what the Korean family culture is like. Stress relieving program supplies chinese students with chances to decrease stress by taking part in some sport programs, musical programs, and psychological programs. The common things in those two programs are that after chinese students get involved in programs, they share their experiences with others.
Chapter 5 describes that the results of all the surveys conducted for chinese students' cultural adaptation stress. In accordance with the results of the surveys, chinese students have troubles adapting to academic lives in Korea owing to lack of their understanding of Korean cultures. What is worse, they have not used club activities as an advantageous way to help to get rid of their stress. They are recommended to participate in club activities. It concludes this: Firstly, a program for making chinese students adapt better to Korean cultures should be made. Secondly, another program that help chinese students decrease their stress should be designed and conducted. Lastly, those two programs should be developed with chinese students' experiences mixed and be shared with chinese students who will take part in the programs later.