A Self-Report on the Factors Determining the Stress Levels of Chinese Graduate Students Studying Abroad in Thailand
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An expanding corpus of research and data shows that stress, a contemporary pandemic and the most prevalent academic performance-related mental disease among all mental health issues, poses a possible challenge or danger to humanity. In addition, considerable evidence indicates that the prevalence of stress among college students is on the rise. In light of this, the current research aims to evaluate the degree of stress among Chinese college students in Bangkok based on the influence of demographic variables such as gender, age, academic level, and family background/region, as well as to identify possible stress-determining factors. For both quantitative and qualitative data collection and integration, a mixed-methods survey design was used, and semi-structured interviews were performed. According to the research findings, Chinese graduate students exhibited a significantly elevated and averaged level of stress (X ̅=4.09) about studying overseas in Thailand. In addition to eating (X ̅=4.77), academic concerns (X ̅=4.56), cultural difficulties (X ̅=3.59), and education-related administration management (X ̅=3.44), a number of other factors accounted for the majority of the stress-reduction factors. This research provides a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of stress levels from the perspectives of Chinese graduate students studying abroad in Thailand. Equally significant, the study findings create a framework for analyzing the external and internal stress-causing variables among Chinese graduate students.
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