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HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSTable 32Significant predictors of students’ Abuse and Distress scale scoreModelGenderUnstandardisedCoefficientsB S.E..34.10StandardisedCoefficientsBeta.25t3.55**95% C.I. for BLowerUpper.15 .53Perceiveddiscrimination(D20).20.06.263.53**.09.30Perceivedacademicprogress.16.07.162.27*.02.30Years ofenrolment.07.03.142.05*.00.14Stress scale .17*p
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSTable 33General and relative state of physical healthGeneral state of physical healthRelative state of physical healthCategoriesNumberof students %Rating on B4:During this year, myphysical health hasinterfered with mystudiesCategoriesNumberof students %Rating on B4:During this year, myphysical health hasinterfered with mystudiesPoor 25 2.6 1.72 Worse thanat homeFair 320 32.7 0.96 About thesameGood 510 52.1 0.57 Better than athome173 17.7 1.34653 66.8 0.56151 15.5 0.54Excellent 123 12.6 0.31There are statistically significant relationships between students’ perceptions of healthand their perceived connectedness and cultural stress in Melbourne. The morepositive students’ evaluation of their general health, the higher their scores on theConnectedness scale 184 . Students who feel their health here is about the same orbetter than at home also have higher scores on the Connectedness scale than thosewho feel their health is worse here 185 . The opposite relationship holds for health andcultural stress. The more positive students’ evaluation of their general health, thelower their scores on the Cultural Stress scale 186 . Students who feel their health hereis about the same or better than at home also have lower scores on the Cultural Stressscale than those who feel their health is worse here 187 .A pertinent issue is whether students feel their health has had an adverse effect ontheir university studies during the year. About 82 per cent of students indicate (Table34) that there has been little or no interference with their studies arising from healthproblems. Table 34 also shows that only 5.3 per cent (n=52) of students think therehas been a strongly adverse effect.Table 34Effect of physical health on studiesItems Mean SD 0Not at allB4. During this year, my physical health hasinterfered with my studies. (n=975)Percentage ratings1To somedegree2To aconsiderable degree3Verymuch0.7 0.9 54.1 27.8 12.8 5.3Not surprisingly, students who judge themselves to be in poor physical health feeltheir health interferes strongly with their studies (see Table 33). The result of aunivariate analysis of variance shows that students who rate their health as poor, give184 =+0.18, p
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