Elling, Wouter (2022) The Influence of Language Proficiency, Social Capital and Personality on The Feelings of Belonging in International Students. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
|
Text
WAElling_LanguageProficiencySocialCapitalSenseofBelonging_S3331342.pdf Download (333kB) | Preview |
A thesis is an aptitude test for students. The approval of the thesis is proof that the student has sufficient research and reporting skills to graduate but does not guarantee the quality of the research and the results of the research as such, and the thesis is therefore not necessarily suitable to be used as an academic source to refer to. If you would like to know more about the research discussed in this thesis and any publications based on it, to which you could refer, please contact the supervisor mentioned.
Abstract
This thesis set out to investigate the influence of language proficiency, social capital, and conscientiousness on the feelings of belonging to Dutch society in international students in the Netherlands. This is important because half of the international students experience troubles with acculturation when studying abroad (Chen, 1999). With better information on the influence of both language proficiency and social capital we can improve their academic and sociocultural well-being. To do this we created a questionnaire which was filled in by a pool of international student currently residing. The results were analysed with a correlation study and the significant variables were further studied in multiple regression models. The models showed a significant result for Dutch support. We concluded that qualitative Dutch support is an important factor in the sense of belonging in international students in the Netherlands.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Kuschel, A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2022 08:49 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 08:49 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1011 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |