Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to examine the level of psychological adaptation of Chinese student studying in Korea according to their acculturation strategy. To this aim, 116 Chinese student who come to Korea in last 1 month completed scales related with acculturation strategy(acculturation, assimilation, isolation, marginalization), depression, anxiety, loneliness, and happiness. The results were as follows. Assimilation type showed low loneliness, anxiety, and high happiness. However, marginalization type showed most maladaptive aspect. It suggests that assimilation strategy is most useful to foreign student's adaptation in early stage. The implications and limitations of the present study were discussed along with suggestions for future research.