The COVID-19’s impacts on study abroad intentions ---- an empirical study based on the Chinese student’s sample
Year: 2021
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Under the COVID-19 global pandemic, the international \neducation industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. To identify the \nCOVID-19’s effects on students’ study abroad intentions and the \nunderlying mechanisms, a conceptual model is built by integrating the \ninternational students’ decision model with the theory of planned behavior \n(TPB). The conceptual model is tested empirically, using cross-tabulation\nanalysis, the multinomial logit model (MNL) and the structural equation \nmodel (SEM) with a data set including 428 Chinese students. The results \nshow that although COVID-19 mainly lead to the negative effects on the \nstudents’ intentions to study abroad, it also becomes a “push factor” for\nincreasing the study abroad intentions for some local students. The deeper \nanalysis indicates that the mechanism for intention change is mainly \nthrough the subjective norms while there is no evidence for the importance \nof attitudes or the perceived behavioral controls within this process.
Author: Yanjun Shi
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3186310164