Service, Margot (2022) The Influence of Language Proficiency and Social Capital on Sense of Belonging in the Netherlands: International Students’ Account on Dating and Romantic Relationships. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Over eight percent of the students in the European Union are international students, which makes the challenge of assimilation an issue that needs to be understood in depth. Previous studies have presented mixed findings on the relationship between belonging, bridging social capital, and bonding social capital. Our study will elaborate on how bridging social capital and bonding social capital affect belonging. This study will begin to fill the gap in previous research, which fails to distinguish between quality of support and quantity of support. In the present study, we analyzed the impact of social capital and language proficiency on sense of belonging of international students in the Netherlands with a cross-sectional online questionnaire (n = 134). We found that higher language proficiency and higher levels of support from Dutch people are related to higher sense of belonging. However, higher levels of support from co-nationals and other internationals did not decrease sense of belonging in international students. The types of support from Dutch people differed in significance, meaning that we found quality of support to be a significant predictor while quantity of support was not. Within the regression, we also found that language was not a significant predictor when accounting for perceived support. When predicting sense of belonging, the characteristics of support from the host country are more significant than the amount of support, language proficiency plays a role, and co-national support did not factor in.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kuschel, A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2022 07:52 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2022 07:52 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1114 |
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