Document Type
Honors Thesis
Deposit Date
12-12-2025
Abstract
This study examined how coping strategies influence acculturative stress among international and multicultural college students. A quantitative correlational design was used with 36 participants recruited through convenience sampling at the University of Texas at Arlington. Participants completed four standardized Likert-type scales measuring acculturative stress, general coping, and academic coping. Correlational analyses showed that age was negatively related to acculturative stress and positively related to coping. A mediation analysis using PROCESS Model 4 indicated that coping partially mediated the relationship between age and acculturative stress, accounting for 39% of the variance, R²=.39, F(2, 33) = 10.60, p < .001. Age significantly predicted coping (β=.06, p=.015), while coping marginally predicted acculturative stress (β= -.26, p = .068). Findings suggest that coping strategies play a modest but protective role in reducing acculturative stress, with older participants reporting slightly greater coping and lower stress.
Disciplines
Multicultural Psychology
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Faculty Mentor of Honors Project
Amandeep Dhaliwal
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Khan, Naba, "Coping Strategies as Predictors of Acculturative Stress Among International College Students" (2025). 2025 Fall Honors Capstones Projects. 2.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_fall2025/2