Smartphone addiction and cross-cultural adjustment among overseas Chinese students: The role of emotion regulation beliefs and strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have focused on the cross-cultural adjustment of Chinese students studying in Belarus with the size of this group increasing in recent years. The current study aimed to map the process of cross-cultural adjustment onto various factors including childhood emotional neglect, emotion regulation beliefs, emotional regulation strategies, and smartphone addiction in the international students. Emotional regulation strategy and emotion regulation beliefs could perform as key parts in adapting into overseas life from social learning perspective. Furthermore, smartphone addiction could precipitate a failed adjustment process.

Materials and methods

A total of 356 Chinese students in Belarus completed a self-administered questionnaire including the Chinese versio

SUBMITTER: Wanqing H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9590311 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature