Predicting Asian international students' sociocultural adjustment: A test of two mediation models

Integrating a number of theoretical perspectives, this paper examined predictors of Asian international students' Sociocultural adjustment. A total of 117 students (aged 18-46 years) from 17 Asian countries and regions completed questionnaires about their sociocultural adjustment, contact with the hosts, ethnic identity, and cross-cultural self-efficacy. As hypothesized, contact with the hosts partially mediated the effect of cross-cultural self-efficacy on sociocultural adjustment. The hypothesis that contact with the hosts would mediate the effect of ethnic identity on sociocultural adjustment was not supported. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.