Academic Satisfaction of International Students at Irish Higher Education Institutions: The Role of Region of Origin and Cultural Distance in the Context of Marketization

Autor/inn/en	Finn, Mairéad; Mihut, Georgiana; Darmody, Merike
Titel	Academic Satisfaction of International Students at Irish Higher Education Institutions: The Role of Region of Origin and Cultural Distance in the Context of Marketization
Quelle	In: Journal of Studies in International Education, 26 (2022) 5, S.572-589 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Finn, Mairéad) ORCID (Mihut, Georgiana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1028-3153
DOI	10.1177/10283153211027009
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; International Education; Higher Education; Student Diversity; Student Attitudes; Study Abroad; Power Structure; Foreign Countries; Individualism; Self Concept; Correlation; Commercialization; Educational Trends; Geographic Regions; Comparative Analysis; Marketing; Likert Scales; Student Characteristics; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schülerverhalten; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Ausland; Individualismus; Selbstkonzept; Korrelation; Bildungsentwicklung; Likert-Skala; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Irland
Abstract	Internationalization of higher education has increased the diversity of the student body at higher education institutions. There is evidence that the experiences of international students vary according to their region of origin, but trends on a larger scale remain underexamined. Drawing on Eurostudent VI data from the Republic of Ireland, this article investigates how academic satisfaction varies between students from different global regions of origin and from national settings with distinct cultural distance characteristics. Results suggest that international students have higher levels of academic satisfaction than Irish students, but that differences between students from diverse regions of origin persist. In addition, international students originating from a national context with high power distance, irrespective of levels of individualism, have higher levels of academic satisfaction compared with Irish students. Furthermore, self-perception of being a detached customer rather than an equal partner in education has the strongest association with academic satisfaction, suggesting that commercialization trends affect both international and domestic students. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01