Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between professor support, academic hope, and achievement goal orientation of foreign students, and to find out the structural relationship. Methods The subjects of the study were a total of 174 men and women enrolled in four-year universities and graduate schools located in Seoul and Gyeonggi regions. The tools of the study were professor support, academic hope, and achievement goal orientation scales, and the collected survey results were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 24.0 programs. Results First, the social support of graduate students has a positive (+) effect on hope. Second, graduate students' hopes have a positive (+) effect on achievement goal orientation. Third, the social support of graduate students has a positive (+) effect on achievement goal orientation. Fourth, the relationship between graduate student's social support and achievement goal orientation is partially mediated by their hope. Fifth, it was found that there was a difference in the path of social support, hope, and achievement goal orientation according to Korean graduate students and foreign graduate students. Conclusions Through the research results, the mediating effect of hope was confirmed in the relationship between social support and achievement goal orientation of graduate students, which is meaningful in that it provides basic data that can be used in the field of counseling and education.

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