Role Identities, Pacing Style and Academic Progress among graduate students in Taiwan and China

• Main Authors: ZHANG HAO, 張浩
• Other Authors: Gao Yu-Jing
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m4s2ns

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 心理學系 === 105 === Following the growth of communication between China and Taiwan, the issues regarding cross-strait postgraduate students were often discussed recently. When I was studying in Taiwan, I found that there are many Taiwanese graduate students delay their graduation. However, this phenomenon was not general in China. Meanwhile, I also perceived that the pacing style between cross-strait postgraduate students is different as well. Therefore, I would like to investigate the reasons hiding behind this phenomenon. It is also the core issues regarding this research. In this research, the data were collected from Mainland China and Taiwan. The questionnaire was used as a tool to investigate the related issues. Therefore, the selected data was analyzed and found the results below: when students who have strong worker identity, they could find a job more quickly than the students who have strong student identity. And then if they facing difficulty in work environment, they preferred to use ‘possibility’ to explain the difficulty rather than strong worker’s identity responders. During the academic and working progress, when the responders were facing difficulty, they preferred to use important to explain difficulty instead of using possibility. Meanwhile, graduate students in Taiwan and Mainland graduate students in Taiwan felt more difficulty than Chinese graduate students in the item of job-hunting, and it had the same result in the dissertation-writing as well. Further study, in dissertation-writing process, Chinese graduate students faster than Taiwanese graduate students and Mainland graduate students in Taiwan. In the job- hunting process, Chinese graduate students are faster than Taiwanese graduate students. The result also influenced in pacing style. Chinese graduate students preferred the steady style when they do the dissertation-writing task, and the majority of Taiwanese graduate students and Mainland graduate students in Taiwan tended to deadline style. When Mainland graduate students was as a reference group, the above results revealed the different educational environments and institutions between China and Taiwan mainly caused the difference of academic progress and pacing style.