Coping with culture shock: a study of stressors, adjustments and stereotypes among chinese students at bangkok university

Instruments

Since the research is an exploratory research, an unstructured interview is used to collect data from those 40 respondents. It means interviews are lead by interviewer, but it is not arranged by interviewer. However, there are several questions asked to respondents during interview. They are manly divided into 2 parts.

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   Demographic background of respondents. In the beginning of each interview, several questions are asked for demographic background of respondents. They include respondents’ name, age, gender, period of stay (in Thailand), and status in Bangkok University.
   

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   Interviewees’ open talk. Interviewees can talk about any experience that they have in Thailand. Their experiences can be academic, psychological and sociocultural aspects. Interviewer is response to record and lead respondents to talk. Generally, interviewer leads respondents to talk with followed interview questions:
   

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  What kinds of intercultural communication problem cause stress to you as living in Thailand?
  
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  How do you cope with those kinds of stress or problem?
  
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  According to intercultural communication stressors, what kinds of effort you did for adjusting yourself to be suitable to Thai society and society of Bangkok University?
  
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  What do you think (or feel) about Thailand and Thai before you arrived in Thailand?
  
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  What do you think (or feel) about Thailand and Thai now?
  

Based on those interview questions above, respondents are led to have a free talk in each question. They can talk about anything that they felt or wanted. After interviews, interviewer is response to reorganize and summarize collected data (from interviews) and interpret respondents’ stressors, coping style, adjustment and stereotypes in detail.

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