Acculturative Stress Coping Strategy and Socio-Cultural Adaptation of Senior High School Students

Abstract

Stress comes from the differences in norms, values, social customs, and education standards between the original culture and host culture. Students who transfer to another school are struggling to adjust and adapt in other cultures. Descriptive-developmental design research aimed to determine the strategies for stress coping and socio cultural adaptation of Senior High School students in Union Christian College. By the stratified random sampling, 133 students were randomly selected from the 466 students. Frequency counts, Pearson R and percentage were the strategies used to treat the data gathered. The respondents showed that they experienced a moderate level of acculturative stress and socio-cultural adaptation. Moreover, the researchers discovered that type of school, type of community and cultural ethnicity does not affect students’ cultural and social adjustment but sex and strand affects students’ perception of discrimination, acceptance and support from friends.