Studying Away and Well-Being: A Comparison Study Between International and Home Students in the UK

Alharbi, Eman S.; Smith, Andrew Paul

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“…[ 1 ] Furthermore, pursuing higher education also offers students the opportunity to secure a better and brighter future, leading many to seek educational opportunities outside their hometowns. [ 2 3 ] In Saudi Arabia, there has been a significant increase in university education since 2005, with the establishment of 34 public and private universities, resulting in an expansion of educational opportunities. [ 4 5 ] Furthermore, Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 emphasizes the importance of education, leading to a surge in the number of college students, reaching 1,090,407 in total, and consequently an increase in students opting to study away from their hometowns.…”

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Challenges University Students Face while Studying away from Hometown: A Cross-Sectional Study

Medani,

Alqadhibi,

Almutairi

et al. 2024

Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences

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This study aims to highlight the challenges that undergraduates face when traveling a significant distance from home to study. These challenges are psychological, financial, and nutritional. The study was descriptive and based on a survey conducted to investigate the challenges faced by university students while studying away from their hometown. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 214 undergraduates between February and April 2021. The collected data were analyzed using the computer program SPSS version 24. Pearson’s Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests were applied to observe associations between qualitative variables. A total of 214 undergraduates participated in the study, with a median age of 22 years. The study found significant relationships between weight change and housing (P < 0.001), weight change and distance (P < 0.001), level of homesickness and housing (P < 0.001), level of homesickness and college distance (P < 0.001), and financial status with housing (P = 0.025). The study revealed that a significant number of undergraduate participants face psychological, financial, and nutritional challenges. These challenges include psychosocial issues, such as homesickness financial difficulties, such as money issues, and nutritional concerns, such as weight changes.

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Challenges University Students Face while Studying away from Hometown: A Cross-Sectional Study

Medani,

Alqadhibi,

Almutairi

et al. 2024

Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences

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“…The research started with a symposium which led to the development of a working/studying away model [2]. This has led to a review of the literature on the well-being of international students [3], followed by three studies of international students studying away from home [4][5][6]. The results from these studies show that having appropriate strategies for being away from home leads to improved quality of working life and better well-being.…”

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Working Away from Home, Coping Strategies, Quality of Working Life, Well-being and Performance

Smith

2021

JESBS

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Background: There has been recent interest in the problems associated with studying or working away from home. A recent model of “working away” describes appropriate coping strategies across the time course from preparing to leave home for work, adapting to work away and returning home from work. Support for this model has come from studies of international students, and the aim of the present study was to extend this to workers from Asia who work in the service industry in the Middle East. Aims: The study aimed to examine associations between working away strategies and quality of working life, well-being and performance efficiency. Established predictors of these outcomes were statistically controlled. Methodology: The research was carried out with the approval of the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, ethics committee and the informed consent of the participants (N=216; mean age = 38.3 years s.d. = 9.2). An online survey was carried out, and regressions were used to examine associations between the working away strategies and the outcomes. Results: Working away strategies were significantly associated with better quality of working life, more positive well-being and better performance. An unexpected result was that these strategies were also associated with more negative well-being. This possibly reflects negative factors leading to the use of working away strategies, which subsequently lead to positive outcomes. Conclusion: The results of this study confirm earlier research that shows associations between working away strategies and quality of working life, positive well-being and performance efficiency. The use of these strategies may initially be related to underlying stress, and their subsequent use then leads to beneficial outcomes.

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“…The present study is part of a programme of research examining factors which influence the wellbeing and academic attainment of students [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34 ]. Again, the literature on these topics is very small with 3 articles on workload and attainment being identified [21,26,35], no articles on workload and wellbeing of students, and very few on related topics such workload and student performance [21] or workload and student stress [19,22].…”

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Student Workload, Wellbeing and Academic Attainment

Smith¹

2019

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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There has been extensive research on workload, often in the laboratory or workplace. Less research has been conducted in educational settings and there is very little examining workload, wellbeing and academic attainment of university students. The present study of 1294 students examined associations between perceptions of workload, hours spent at university, time pressure and attainment and wellbeing outcomes (measured using the Wellbeing Process Questionnaire). Established predictors (stressors; social support; negative coping; positive personality and conscientiousness) were controlled for, and the analyses showed that workload was significantly associated with all outcomes whereas time pressure was only related to course stress and negative wellbeing (life stress, fatigue and anxiety/depression). Hours spent at the university had no significant effects. The effects of workload were interpreted in terms of an initial challenge leading to increased efficiency and attainment. These results show the importance of including workload in future longitudinal research on student wellbeing and attainment.

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Studying Away and Well-Being: A Comparison Study Between International and Home Students in the UK

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Challenges University Students Face while Studying away from Hometown: A Cross-Sectional Study

Challenges University Students Face while Studying away from Hometown: A Cross-Sectional Study

Working Away from Home, Coping Strategies, Quality of Working Life, Well-being and Performance

Student Workload, Wellbeing and Academic Attainment

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