Transitioning through social media: International students' SNS use, perceived social support, and acculturative stress

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Highlights：

• Social support from home and host country is related to less acculturative stress (AS).

• Host SNS use is related to less AS via increased social support from the host country.

• Home SNS use is related neither to social support from home country nor to AS.

• Non-SNS mediated communication with distant conational and host national is related to less AS via social support.

摘要

•Social support from home and host country is related to less acculturative stress (AS).•Host SNS use is related to less AS via increased social support from the host country.•Home SNS use is related neither to social support from home country nor to AS.•Non-SNS mediated communication with distant conational and host national is related to less AS via social support.

论文关键词：Acculturative stress,Computer-mediated communication,International student,Social networking sites,Social media,Social support

论文评审过程：Received 14 November 2018, Revised 8 March 2019, Accepted 11 March 2019, Available online 12 March 2019, Version of Record 15 April 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.03.011