Perceived meaning, pandemic self-efficacy, social support, and discrimination predict trajectories of peri-pandemic growth and distress for international students.

Jeffrey M Pavlacic Marcela C Weber Victoria A TorresLavina Y HoErin M Buchanan Stefan E Schulenberg

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2023)

Despite the stressors they face, many international students demonstrated a trajectory of resilience. Positive coping factors and environmental factors predicted distress or peri-pandemic growth, which can inform interventions and studies examining trajectories of distress during prolonged adversity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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