| Summary: | This study examined the perception of belonging and community integration of
international students. The study used the International Friendly Campus Scale
to examine various aspects of community integration by international students
and used University of Jyväskylä as a case study. The data is drawn from students
had had been living in Jyväskylä for at least one year.
This study looks at how campus discrimination, international office services,
social engagement, and academic services at the University of Jyvaskyla
impact how well international students identify with the institution. The degree
to which students identify with the institution was then used to interpret
international student acculturation at the university.
The results of the factor analysis show a transfer of the scale from the original
context to Jyvaskyla is appropriate. A regression analysis comprised of the
survey categories and two of the student descriptive variables show the contributions
made by the survey categories are significant contributions to student
identification and acculturation.
The implications of this study impact international student acculturation
and the confirmation that the International Friendly Campus Scale can be transferrable
with a fairly high degree of accuracy between contexts as different as
the Midwestern United States and Finland. Use of this scale would be of benefit
for universities either with large international student populations or courting
international students.
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