Abstract
This final research paper explores stress and anxiety among international students studying at American universities. The main difficulties that international students experience at American universities are the language barrier, cultural differences, depression and anxiety, autonomy and financial issues. The paper examines the effects of privatization on student stress and anxiety that led international families to suffer from mental health, academics, intimate relationships, lack of sleep, and facility problems. As the amount of extreme debt and loans, they are dealing to pay off out of college is skyrocketing. This paper also answers questions about how are unique stressors of the international student college experience increasing anxiety and mental health challenges in population, why don’t international students seek help as much as U.S. students? And what could be done to support them more? Even though studying abroad in the United States gives a more well-rounded education and provide more possibilities to experience the world widely, adjusting in a new environment makes the international students hard to focus on studying by the stressors that make them hold depression.
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Zaloom, Caitlin. “Enmeshed Autonomy.” Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost. Princeton UP, 2019. 95-121.
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