June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
8h 46m
English
This research explores the extent to which cultural and linguistic background influences minority students’ social and academic adjustment at the university level. Specifically, the research examined personal and collective self-esteem, collegiate psychological sense of community, and social and academic adjustment of four types of students, grouped according to self-reported ethnic and Chinese language ability and knowledge of their language and culture.
Though the concepts of self-esteem and self-identity were developed in the West, they ...
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