Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted ACCULTURATION AND SEEKING CAMPUS COUNSELING SERVICES AMONG SAUDI INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES: AN INTREPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS(University of Mississippi, 2024-12) Almutairi, Abdullah; Stephanie, LuskThis study adopts a phenomenological qualitative approach to explore and examine the acculturation process of Saudi students living in the United States, particularly in relation to their access to campus counseling services. The findings of this study identify five themes: 1) pre- migration expectations and realities, 2) journey of cultural adaptation, 3) navigating academic adaptations, 4) coping with acculturation and academic pressures, and 5) expectations of services provided by campus counseling experiences. This study highlights that the acculturation journey is a complex experience that affects Saudi students’ psychological well-being, which hinders their access to campus counseling services. The purpose of this is to study addresses the research gap that explores the interplay of acculturation and seeking campus counseling services, which shed light on the challenges and obstacles of this population through their acculturation process. Implications are provided for higher education policy, university counseling centers, and Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission.39 0Item Restricted Cognitive Test Performance in Racialised Minorities(University of Exeter, 2023-09-11) Alawami, Mohammed; Moberly, NickSystematic review: Research has shown that racialised minorities perform poorer on executive functions tasks compared to their White counterparts. Some suggest that factors such as culture, education, and psychosocial variables such as racial discrimination might explain this discrepancy. However, there is a scarcity of reviews that looked at causal evidence to understand the relationship between racial discrimination and executive function with greater clarity. Therefore, this systematic review aimed to investigate experimental studies that manipulated racial discrimination and its impact on executive functions among racialised minorities. A literature search was conducted using Ovid and Web of Science (January 1975 – February 2023) to find studies that compared performance on at least one neuropsychological measure assessing any of the three core executive functions, recruited adult racialised minorities exposed to racial discrimination compared to a control group, and were published in English. Eight studies (n = 802) met the inclusion and were all conducted in North America. Results indicate that exposure to racial discrimination can impact executive functions as assessed by the Stroop task with a small-to medium effect size. This can have clinical implications for neuropsychological assessment with racialised minorities. However, the current evidence base is limited by using only one measure of executive function, lack of a pre-measure in many studies, lack of exploring potential mediators and moderators, and the lack of including diverse samples of racialised minorities. Further research is needed to further strengthen the evidence base of this relationship.31 0