Effects of script-based communicative intervention on psychological and cultural adaptation in students abroad in second-language contexts

Figures & data

Table 1. Study 1 demographic and outcome variables.

	Course (n = 30)	Control (n = 31)
Demographics
Gender (% female)	87%	71%
Age	25.40 (.83)	25.03 (1.18)
Outcome variables
Language use	4.12 (.09)*	3.84 (.09)
Interactions
Positive Emotions	82.33 (3.79)*	70.84 (3.67)
Unpleasantness	4.98 (3.17)	16.38 (3.11)*
Stress	21.74 (4.87)	33.70 (4.71)**
State Emotions
Positive	7.30 (.27)**	6.56 (.27)
Negative	1.14 (.20)	2.04 (.20)*
Anxiety

Means with * denote being significantly (p < .05) higher at T2 than the other group (while controlling for T1 responses). **: p < .1

Figure 1. Effect of having the ICSS course (relative to no course: control) on the positivity of the participants’ interactions with local citizens across both studies. Study 1 – Graz, Austria, Study 2 – Santiago, Chile.

Table 2. Study 2 demographic variables.

	Course (n = 24)	Control (n = 26)
Demographics
Gender (% female)	75%	77%
Age	20.08 (.15)	20.38 (.19)
Studied Spanish (high school)	5.17 (.27)	5.08 (.31)
Studied Spanish (college)	3.17 (.12)	3.04 (.10)
Spanish Major (%)	33%	19%
Attended Language institute (%)	13%	7%

Table 3. Study 2 outcome variables.

	Course (n = 19)		Control (n = 22)
	T2	T3	T2	T3
Outcome variables
Language use	4.68 (.06)	4.83 (.07)	4.63 (.06)	4.84 (.06)
Interactions
Positive Emotions	75.15 (5.32)	88.68 (3.32)	63.35 (5.06)	81.01 (3.15)
Unpleasantness	20.19 (6.17)	5.70 (3.34)	34.88 (5.86)	11.03 (3.17)
Stress	24.15 (6.83)	16.65 (5.53)	41.05 (6.50)	22.61 (5.26)
State Emotions
Positive	7.26 (.28)	8.04 (.30)	6.48 (.26)	6.96 (.28)
Negative	1.84 (.27)	1.33 (.31)	2.14 (.25)	2.10 (.29)
Anxiety	1.59 (.08)	1.40 (.10)	1.65 (.07)	1.70 (.09)
Cultural Intelligence
Metacognitive	5.73 (.15)	5.92 (.18)	5.41 (.14)	5.94 (.16)
Cognitive	5.02 (.13)	5.42 (.17)	4.71 (.12)	5.49 (.16)
Motivational	5.96 (.11)	6.24 (.18)	5.60 (.11)	6.05 (.17)
Behavioural	5.73 (.18)	5.83 (.22)	4.99 (.17)	5.58 (.20)

All means are estimated while controlling for T1 variables. See text for statistics information.