Negative side effects of music listening during cross-cultural transitions: Exploring how music hinders cross-cultural (re)adaptation among student sojourners |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States;2. Department of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;1. Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 17, 37129 Verona, Italy;2. Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Department of Psychology, Via Berti Pichat, 5, 40127 Bologna, VR, Italy;3. Department of Psychology, Center of Study of Migration and Intercultural Relations, CEMyRI, University of Almería, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain;4. Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia, 14, 35131 Padua, Italy;1. Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China;2. Urban Governance and Design Thrust, Society Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China;3. Division of Social Science and Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China;4. School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, China;5. Institute of Sociology, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China;1. Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany;2. DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Germany;1. Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin, Bellmont Hall, 2109 San Jacinto Blvd., Austin, TX 78712, USA;2. Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, FL 33136, USA;3. Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA;4. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California, 635 Downey Way, Verna & Peter Dauterive Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA;5. Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami, 5202 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA;6. School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Although media use has been shown to have benefits in many contexts, including study abroad, it may also hinder cross-cultural transitions in academic sojourns. This study examines how music (as a form of communication media) may interfere with adaptation to the host culture and readaptation to the home culture. Focus groups and interviews with a total of 23 college students (twelve U.S. students and eleven international students) revealed that music hindered sojourners’ ability to interact in social settings, as well as amplified negative feelings while abroad and during reentry. Participants experienced these temporary side effects in conjunction with (or as part of) their purposeful and functional use of music to escape from the social environment and alleviate negative emotions. |
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| Keywords: | Music Study abroad Reentry Cross-cultural adaptation Intercultural communication |
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