Satisfaction with life among international students: An exploratory study
Satisfaction with life among international students: An exploratory study
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1007108614571
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Sam, DL
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Sam, DL
该研究调查了挪威卑尔根大学 304 名国际学生（159 名男性和 145 名女性）的自我报告的生活满意度以及预测生活满意度的因素。这些学生在挪威平均生活了 2.34 年（SD = 2.31）。学生们普遍反映了对生活的满意度。然而，欧洲和北美的学生总体上比非洲和亚洲的学生更满意。研究还发现，朋友的数量、财务满意度、感知到的歧视以及在国外逗留之前收到的信息等因素显着影响了学生的生活满意度。这些因素的重要性对于发展中国家和发达国家的学生来说是不同的，他们得出了一些自相矛盾的发现。这些矛盾的发现可能是挪威研究背景的结果。语言能力（就东道国语言和英语而言）以及拥有东道国朋友并没有对生活满意度产生显着影响。
The study examines self-reported satisfaction with life and the factors predicting it among 304 international students (159 males and 145 females) at the University of Bergen, Norway. The students had on the average lived 2.34 years (SD = 2.31) in Norway. The students reported on the whole good satisfaction with life. However, students from Europe and North America were on the whole more satisfied than their peers from Africa and Asia. It was also found that factors such as the number of friends, satisfaction with finances, perceived discrimination and information received prior to the foreign sojourn significantly affected the student's life satisfaction. The importance of these factors differed for students from developing and developed countries where some paradoxical findings came out. These paradoxical findings may be the result of the Norwegian context of the study. Language proficiency (with respect to host and English languages), and having a host national friend did not show significant effect on life satisfaction.