Stress for International Students and Intervention Approaches

Individual Research
Proposal

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................4
SAMPLING METHOD...................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

Topic: Stress for international students and intervention approaches for reducing stress level
INTRODUCTION
International students are those students who received their prior education in another
country and those who are not residents of current country in which they are getting education.
Australia is well known destination for study and students from around the world come to
Australia for the purpose of education. These are all international students in Australia, in 2017
around 799,377 international students were enrolled in education program in Australia. In these
students 350,472 students were enrolled in high education sector. International students in
Australia mainly studying in higher education studies and other than this, other sector of
education include Vocational Education and Training, English language intensive courses and
overseas students and school sector. Among these students’ highest number of international
students are studying in NSW and least number of students are studying in NT. International
students studying in Australia are mainly from China in which 231191 students are from China.
This research aims at identifying reasons because of which international students experience
stress on daily basis and how their stress can be reduced.
LITERATURE REVIEW
According to Ammigand and et.al., (2018) several reasons are there because of which
international students face and experience in their daily life. These reasons include family home
problem. This means that international students come from other nations, while their family stays
back in their home country. This is one of the reason that staying away from family creates stress
for international students in daily life. Language barriers is another reason because of which
international students face stress in their daily life. Language is very important element and
while communicating in daily life, individuals is not aware of language this becomes a major
reason for stress of international students. International students come from different countries
and they do not know English in such case it is a reason for stress and this is something that
students constantly experience. Adding to this, poor relationship of students with their teacher or
academic instructor is also a cause or reason for stress for international students. This means that
when students have taken prior education in other countries, in such situation they get used to
with home country method and approaches of education and studying, when this changes in
international education this becomes major reason for stress of international students in daily life.