Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)

Coping Strategies to Improve the Quality of Life among Thai Students

Authors
Fikrhatul Fitriyah Musthafa, Annisa Baitina
Corresponding Author
Fikrhatul Fitriyah Musthafa
Available Online March 2019.
DOI
10.2991/acpch-18.2019.20How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Culture shock, coping strategies, Thai students.
Abstract

Thai Students who are getting educated in Indonesia are experiencing various circumstances such as stress due to cultural differences. This makes the students have the appropriate coping strategies to adjust themself in the face of cultural differences that are stressful. This research is a research survey conducted by spreading detailed questionnaire on a sample size of 99 Thai students in town X, Indonesia. The results obtained are that 75.8% of students experience culture shock with the percentage of male students being larger than female students. It is also found that CS experienced affects learning achievement index students, other than that based on the duration the length of stay affect coping strategies are conducted where the students stayed not long ago had a strategy of coping with high facing the CS is experienced so high CS found in students who have already live longer in Indonesia. We also found that coping strategy that focuses on emotions can have significant effects against CS.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-688-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/acpch-18.2019.20How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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