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"A Close Neighbor Is More Valuable Than a Distant Relative": Kyrgyz International Students' Lived Experiences of Social Support in the United States /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"A Close Neighbor Is More Valuable Than a Distant Relative": Kyrgyz International Students' Lived Experiences of Social Support in the United States // Kelsey Maria Lammy.
Author:	Lammy, Kelsey Maria,
Description:	1 electronic resource (174 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-11B.
Subject:	Psychology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=32112214
ISBN:	9798314894200

"A Close Neighbor Is More Valuable Than a Distant Relative": Kyrgyz International Students' Lived Experiences of Social Support in the United States /
Lammy, Kelsey Maria,

"A Close Neighbor Is More Valuable Than a Distant Relative": Kyrgyz International Students' Lived Experiences of Social Support in the United States /Kelsey Maria Lammy. - 1 electronic resource (174 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: B.

This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored and described Kyrgyz international students? lived experiences of receiving social support in the United States. Students from Kyrgyzstan face many psychological and acculturation stressors when adjusting to American life, and Kyrgyz culture places a high value on social relationships and exchanges of support to ensure survival through difficult periods. Social support is widely recognized to buffer against stress and can serve an important role in stabilizing international students through the study abroad experience. In this study, Van Manen?s hermeneutic phenomenological approach was utilized to elicit narratives of receiving social support from Kyrgyz international students studying at one midwestern U.S. university. Van Manen?s reflective writing and hermeneutic follow-up interviewing techniques were used for analysis, and Relational Cultural Theory provided a conceptual lens for understanding the role of mutuality in students? social support experiences. The four thematic findings of the study uncovered that social support provides relational, temporal, spatial, and corporeal stability as students navigate acculturation through the following strategies: Seeing Self-in-Other, Forming Family-like Bonds through Reciprocity, Utilizing Connections as Sources of Effective Guidance, and Proximity and Shared Activities Improve One's Emotional State. The findings indicate that empathy, social comparison, and reciprocity allow this population to gain self- and social knowledge, developing their identities, goals, and relational bonds through social support. Kyrgyz students in this study demonstrated preferences for informational aid from trustworthy sources and physical proximity to support givers, even when support was implicit during social companionship. Through social support, Kyrgyz students increased their awareness of and connection to their local community, which strengthened their well-being and optimism about humanity and the future. The implications of the study can help counseling, university staff, and Kyrgyz community members improve clinical treatment methods, campus programming, and community support for this population. Further research on remote support, different international student populations, or varying generations of Kyrgyz people in the U.S. was recommended to investigate if variations in social support experiences and preferences would exist for different groups.

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ISBN: 9798314894200Subjects--Topical Terms:

519075
Psychology.
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Social support

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