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Attending a university in a country different from one’s own has a potent impact on a person (see Church, 1982, whose review and summary lists more than 40 references on this topic; Klineberg & Hull, 1979). Despite the accumulation of a vast amount of information concerning the more general problem of a sojourn to a different culture and the more specific case of a sojourn to a university in a different culture, there still remains “the need for a multicausal model in which home and university factors are influential” (Fisher & Hood, 1987, p. 439). Or as Shaver, Furman, and Buhrmeister (1985) in their study on transition to college see it, “The field needs a broad social and developmental perspective which can coherently encompass the burgeoning, and not well-integrated literature on personal relationships” (p. 219).
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Wapner, S., Fujimoto, J., Imamichi, T., Inoue, Y., Toews, K. (1997). Sojourn in a New Culture. In: Wapner, S., Demick, J., Yamamoto, T., Takahashi, T. (eds) Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0286-3_20
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