The Role of Individual Absorptive Capacity, Subjective-Wellbeing and Cultural Fit in Predicting International Student's Academic Achievement and Novelty in China

Autor/inn/en	Teye, Emmanuel Tetteh; Tetteh, Alexander Narh; Teye, Abraham; Ntim, Seth Yeboah; Abosi, Beatrice Ayerakwa; Rufai, Olayemi Hafeez; He, Qian
Titel	The Role of Individual Absorptive Capacity, Subjective-Wellbeing and Cultural Fit in Predicting International Student's Academic Achievement and Novelty in China
Quelle	In: International Journal of Higher Education, 7 (2018) 6, S.78-97 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6044
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Academic Achievement; Well Being; Personality Theories; Graduate Students; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schulleistung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Personality theory; Persönlichkeitstheorie; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin
Abstract	This study investigated the role of cognitive-(absorptive capacity), psychological-(subjective-wellbeing) and cultural-fit-factors as predictors of academic achievement-novelty in a Chinese-C9-league-University. We addressed the question of what drive student's achievement of high graduations requirements and innovativeness in their Host-University; focusing mainly on whether interactionistic-nature-(fit-capabilities) are better mechanisms. The quantitative approach was adopted; collect 234 valid data via survey questionnaire (Note 1), and conduct analysis via structural equation modeling technique. We found that individual-absorptive-capacity has significant effect on supervisor-fit, but a non-significant effect on university-fit dimensions of cultural-fit. Subjective-wellbeing significantly affects both dimensions of cultural-fit. The findings further show how supervisor-fit and university-fit indirectly mediate the (absorptive-capacity, subjective-wellbeing)-achievement-novelty relationship. We highlight the importance of cultural-diversity-awareness; considering supervisor-institutional-fit-factors in research-mentorship-development to support international-students 'induction for research productivity in educational-settings. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01