Abstract
This study aims to understand international students’ coping strategies and psychological adaption during the early pandemic of 2019 Coronavirus (COVID-19). By using the convenience and purposive sampling strategy, we selected four participants who were staying in mainland China at the outbreak of COVID-19. They were asked to keep diaries for 3 weeks and attend an interview afterwards. Analysis of participants’ diaries and interview transcriptions indicated that international students’ source of information about COVID-19 was mainly from English websites; their solutions in the special period were to stay at home; they isolated themselves from the public, wore facial masks when going out, received timely support from their educational institution and did many self-relaxing exercises. Psychologically speaking, they felt panicked at the beginning and gradually became calm; initiatives and measures implemented by governments at all levels in China during the pandemic have won their high praise and China’s image has become better, more trustworthy and reliable. These findings provide valuable insights about international students and educational institutions around the world as COVID-19 is continuing; they also add more evidence for positive psychology; that is, individuals’ positive feelings largely depend on the environment where they live, such as their teachers, universities, and the society.
Highlights
IntroductionFebruary 11, 2020 (China Organ, 2020)
These findings provide valuable insights about international students and educational institutions around the world as COVID-19 is continuing; they add more evidence for positive psychology; that is, individuals’ positive feelings largely depend on the environment where they live, such as their teachers, universities, and the society
Being a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), it means that the impact of COVID-19 has exceeded one country; COVID-19 becomes an international concern which needs the corporation from the whole world to defeat it
Summary
February 11, 2020 (China Organ, 2020) This new virus spreads fast and widely, and it infects people (Zhang et al, 2020). The population mobility provided a favourable condition for the wide spread of COVID-19 (Cai et al, 2020). As the situation got worse, WHO held an urgent meeting, announcing the COVID-19 a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)” (China, 2020). According to the International Health Regulations (IHR), a public health emergency of international concern is an unusual event that poses public health risk to other countries through international spread of the disease and may require a coordinated international response (China Organ, 2020). Being a PHEIC, it means that the impact of COVID-19 has exceeded one country; COVID-19 becomes an international concern which needs the corporation from the whole world to defeat it
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