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Title: THE SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION AMONG CHINESE STUDENTS AT INFRASTRUCTURE UNIVERSITY KUALA LUMPUR (IUKL)
Authors: Zhu Jingjing and Normaliza Abd. Rahim
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Zhu Jingjing and Normaliza Abd. Rahim Faculty Of Arts, Communication & Education, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur.
MLA 8 Jingjing, Zhu, and Normaliza Abd. Rahim. "THE SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION AMONG CHINESE STUDENTS AT INFRASTRUCTURE UNIVERSITY KUALA LUMPUR (IUKL)." Int. j. of Socia
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ABSTRACT: In the current environment, more and more Chinese students choose to study abroad. Many scholars have pointed out that in the context of globalization, the links between countries are increasingly close, and more and more students from different countries choose to study abroad. Chinese students from China studying in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, have changed a lot under this background. The focus of this study is the intercultural adaptation problems that foreign students will face when they study in a foreign country. This study takes social support as the starting point, takes Chinese students in Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur as an example, sends out questionnaires and collects 147 valid questionnaires, explores the situation of social support and intercultural adaptation of Chinese students in different social backgrounds, and the relationship between social support and intercultural adaptability. Quantitative research methods were used in the study. Supported by Cobb and Kasl's (1976) social support theory and Black & Mendenhall's (1991) intercultural U-shaped theory, this study draws relevant conclusions through SPSS data analysis. The results reveal that: students with different social backgrounds have different social support and intercultural adaptation. At the same time, the results show that: social support has a positive impact on intercultural adaptation. According to the above results, this study further studies the methods of strengthening social support to improve intercultural adaptability. This study suggests strengthening the interpersonal skills of foreign students, increasing the accumulation of social resources and the ability to deal with interpersonal relationships in social support. It advocates that society, schools and parents should form a joint force, pay attention to students who have no experience of studying abroad, and guide them to actively seek ways to exercise in social resources, social networks and related important others. To explore the influence of social support on intercultural adaptability.

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