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Participating the Exchange Programs and Overseas Internship Survey in Taiwan (May 2017)

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The issue of exchange students and participate the overseas internships have been a popular programs during the college. During the life abroad, students may face lots of difficulties, such as languages, culture conflicts and local life. The purposes of this study is to explore that (A) the impact of the personality traits, culture conflicts, cross-cultural adaptation and self-efficacy in participating exchange students and overseas internships (B) the impact of the culture conflicts, cross-cultural adaptation and self-efficacy in participating exchange students and overseas internships (C) the impact of the cross-cultural adaptation, culture conflicts and self-efficacy in participating exchange students and overseas internships. By Using SPSS 20.0 statistical suite and AMOS statistics of software according to the data of the questionnaire survey with descriptive statistical analysis, reliability and validity analysis, correlation analysis, one-way Analysis of variance (ANOVA), SEM and grey relational analysis, (A) There is a significant positive correlation among the personality traits, culture conflicts, cross-cultural adaptation and self-efficacy in participating the exchange and overseas internship programs. (B) There is a significant positive correlation among the culture conflicts, cross-cultural adaptation and self-efficacy in participating the exchange and overseas internship programs. (C) There is a significant positive correlation among the cross-cultural adaptation, culture conflicts and self-efficacy in participating the exchange and overseas internship programs.

Published in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.tecs.20170203.12
Page(s) 29-40
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Exchange Students, Overseas Internships, Culture Conflicts, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Personality Traits, Self-Efficacy

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