FOREIGN STUDENTS AND THEIR AMERICAN STUDENT FRIENDS.

Autor/inn/en	DOWLING, LEO R.; SHAFFER, ROBERT H.
Institution	Indiana Univ., Bloomington.
Titel	FOREIGN STUDENTS AND THEIR AMERICAN STUDENT FRIENDS.
Quelle	(1966), (387 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Students; Foreign Students; Friendship; Intergroup Relations; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Relations; Sociocultural Patterns; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Indiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Freundschaft; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Soziale Beziehung; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	THE SOCIOCULTURAL INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS AMONG FOREIGN STUDENTS AND AMERICAN STUDENTS ON THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS WERE STUDIED TO ASCERTAIN THEIR IMPACT ON THE NATIVE GROUP AND TO DETERMINE THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF FRIENDSHIP PATTERNS AND ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BOTH GROUPS. ABOUT 550 AMERICAN STUDENTS WERE SELECTED FOR THE PROJECT SAMPLE. ALL WERE CLOSE FRIENDS OF FOREIGN STUDENTS ON CAMPUS. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A BACKGROUND QUESTIONNAIRE, PERSONALITY AND PERSONAL PREFERENCE TESTS, SCHOOL RECORDS, AND PERSONAL INTERVIEWS. A PART OF THE SAMPLE POPULATION WAS COMPARED TO OTHER STUDENTS WHO HAD NO CLOSE FOREIGN FRIENDS. THE FOREIGN STUDENTS SUPPLIED THE INFORMATION WHICH LED TO SELECTION OF THE STUDY SAMPLE FROM WHICH OBJECTIVE INFORMATION (ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRESENT FRIENDSHIPS WITH FOREIGN PEOPLE) AND SUBJECTIVE INFORMATION (ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FOREIGN PEOPLE) WERE OBTAINED IN ADDITION TO THAT DATA DESCRIBED ABOVE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE FRIENDSHIPS UNDER EXAMINATION WERE BASED UPON SIMILARITIES IN INTERESTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROXIMITIES RATHER THAN UPON PERSONAL OR BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS, AND THAT INITIAL CONTACTS BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS AROSE FROM ACADEMIC AND OTHER INTERESTS MATCHED IN INFORMAL AND SPONTANEOUS MEETINGS. CAMPUS ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS APPEARED TO CONTRIBUTE LITTLE. (JH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC