SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TAIWAN: A COMPARISON BETWEEN VIETNAMESE AND TAIWANESE STUDENTS

• Main Authors: Bui The Chien, 斐世戰
• Other Authors: SHU-YEU LIN
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20729802755552375346

碩士 === 明新科技大學 === 管理研究所 === 102 === In recent years, there has been an increasing globalization in the higher education sectors.For those who study aboard, the life far away from home will surely face many difficulties. They do not only need to “learn” but also need to “live” in the new environment with different culture, without the support of their original social network. Thus, to adequately understand foreign students’ circumstances, to know if they are satisfied with their learning environment may not be enough, it is important to also know their subjective well-being. The main purpose of this study is to investigate Vietnamese students’ subjective well- being in Taiwan.The study will involve two type of survey: subjective well-being (SWB) and day reconstructed method (DRM). The main components of the SWB include students’ satisfaction about many aspects of their life and their daily emotional experiences. Whereas the DRM will allows us to find out the daily activities that associate with their emotional experiences. Further, to better understand the subjective well-being of Vietnamese students, Taiwanese students’ SWB will also be collected and served as a controlled group. The most striking and unexpected results in this study was that Vietnamese students’ subjective well-being was significantly better than Taiwanese students. In particular, all indexes in emotional well-being indicated that Vietnamese students were better than local students. The results are surprising because, as compared to local students, foreign students are facing much more challenge in the need to adapt to new environment and being cut off from their social support system.