Lifestyles and key factors affecting the adaptation of foreign muslim students in Thailand
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Yaowanuch Sawhasun (2020). Lifestyles and key factors affecting the adaptation of foreign muslim students in Thailand. Retrieved from: https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6838.
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Lifestyles and key factors affecting the adaptation of foreign muslim students in Thailand
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The research is aimed 1) to study the lifestyles of foreign Muslim students in
Thailand 2) to explore foreign Muslim students’ living and intercultural communication
problems in Thailand, and 3) to investigate the differences and relationship between the
related factors and the level of foreign Muslim students’ adaptability in Thailand.
The study is multi-methodology research, conducted by both quantitative and
qualitative research. Survey questionnaires were collected from 286 foreign Muslim
students. For qualitative research, an in-depth interview with foreign Muslim students,
Thai friends, an instructor, and international students' advisor, a total of twelve samples,
combined with the non-participant observation, and analyzed by descriptive and
inferential statistics. Besides, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was
used and analyzed by t-test and ANOVA, including multiple regression analysis for
predicting factors related to the level of foreign Muslim students’ adaptability in
Thailand at the .05 statistical significance level. From the study, it was found that
1) Foreign Muslim students had sport and outdoor orientation lifestyle
the most, followed by a cultural-orientation lifestyle.
2) Foreign Muslim students had low Thai language proficiency in
every skill; thus, this caused their general living in Thailand. They specified the
problem in the cognitive domain or the Thai language’s understanding the most as they
could not communicate with local people outside the universities, not understand Thai
signs, etc. Besides, insufficient Halal food and the inconvenience of finding it, including no provided places in the universities for their religious practices, were other
main problems. No problem was found in the affective domain due to their motivation
to study in Thailand, their positive attitude towards Thailand, Thai people, and Thai
educational systems, including the low cost of living. They found no behavioral
problems either. However, they expected to get free courses in the Thai language, but
most universities did not arrange for them and discouraged them from learning Thai.
3) From the statistical analysis, foreign Muslim students' lifestyle
patterns were found to positively correlate with the level of their adaptability, especially
the cultural-orientation lifestyle. Foreign Muslim students had the overall adaptability
at a high level. Personal factors and their predispositions, including their Thai language
skills, were positively correlated at the .05 statistical significance level. From the
multiple regression analysis of seven variables: communication, media exposure,
religious influence, host culture environment, intercultural communication
competence, lifestyle patterns, and Thai language skills, are found to predict the level
of foreign Muslim students' adaptability 37%. Host culture environment, lifestyle
patterns, and intercultural communication competence are found to be the most
predictive factors. Intercultural communication competence in three domains:
cognitive, affective, and behavioral, can predict the level of adaptability 20%, and
competence in the affective domain is the most predictive factor. All seven patterns of
lifestyle: cultural, social, entertainment, home and family, and sport and outdoor
orientation, can predict the level of adaptability 18%and the cultural-orientation
lifestyle is the most predictive factor.
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Thesis (Ph.D. (Communication Arts and Innovation))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2020