Specifics of psychological maladaptation of international students studying in English
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Keywords

maladaptation
English-speaking students
adaptation
higher education

How to Cite

VasylievaО. (2020). Specifics of psychological maladaptation of international students studying in English. Medicine Today and Tomorrow, 89(4), 59-65. https://doi.org/10.35339/msz.2020.89.04.08

Abstract

Internalization of higher education is conditioned by the globalization of the modem world. High- quality training of specialists and accessibility of higher education encourages foreign citizens to study in higher education institutions of Ukraine. The priority task of modem medical psychology is to effectively address the peculiarities of manifestations and mechanisms of development of maladaptive states in conditions of social stress, optimization of qualified medical and psychological care and psychoprophylaxis of such painful conditions. There was conducted a comprehensive survey of 372 international students studying in English at I–VI courses of Kharkiv National Medical University in compliance with the principles of bioethics and medical deontology. They were both sexes, with an average age of (19±3) years. All respondents were divided into three groups depending on the regions which they came to study from. Analysis of the severity of manifestations of maladaptive states allowed us to identify the following variants of pathopsychological symptoms. There are astheno-depressive (23.1% of subjects group I, 15.8% of subjects group II and 25.6% of group III subjects), hyperesthetic (29.9%; 29.8% and 22.2% of the surveyed respectively), anxious (25.5% of examined in group I, 18.9 % of the surveyed group II and 31.1% of the surveyed group III) and dysphoric (21.5%; 35.5% and 21.1% respectively) pathopsychological symptoms. We came to conclusion that neuropsychological stress was been most strongly associated with motor activity, efficiency, emotional manifestations, with the greatest functional load were observed in such an area as memory.

Keywords: maladaptation, English-speaking students, adaptation, higher education.

https://doi.org/10.35339/msz.2020.89.04.08
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