Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip

Looking into the tremendous growth of international students pursuing their higher education in Malaysia, it is common for them to experienced culture shock symptom which is an excessive feeling on situation that they are not familiar yet. Despite experiencing culture shock, international students a...

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Main Author:	Mohd Sanip, Nurul Amira
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16710/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16710/2/TM_NURUL%20AMIRA%20MOHD%20SANIP%20HM%202013_5.pdf

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spelling	uitm-167102019-02-04T00:39:22Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16710/ Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip Mohd Sanip, Nurul Amira Looking into the tremendous growth of international students pursuing their higher education in Malaysia, it is common for them to experienced culture shock symptom which is an excessive feeling on situation that they are not familiar yet. Despite experiencing culture shock, international students are also vulnerable to the process of acculturation towards the host country regardless of uncertainty feelings of avoidances on certain changes such as food, culture and society. Therefore, this current study investigates the influences of acculturation and uncertainty avoidance among the international students towards their acceptance on Malay food in Malaysia universities. A total of 352 students from Asia, Middle East, America, Europe and Africa have participated in this study and findings revealed that acculturation has a positive relationship with Malay food acceptance (β=.281, p< 0.001) whilst uncertainty avoidance recorded a negative relationship (β=-.165, p<0.001). As a result, study indicates that international students in Malaysia are able to accept Malay food although there is a difference in taste, texture and aroma. 2013 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/16710/2/TM_NURUL%20AMIRA%20MOHD%20SANIP%20HM%202013_5.pdf Mohd Sanip, Nurul Amira (2013) Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA.
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description	Looking into the tremendous growth of international students pursuing their higher education in Malaysia, it is common for them to experienced culture shock symptom which is an excessive feeling on situation that they are not familiar yet. Despite experiencing culture shock, international students are also vulnerable to the process of acculturation towards the host country regardless of uncertainty feelings of avoidances on certain changes such as food, culture and society. Therefore, this current study investigates the influences of acculturation and uncertainty avoidance among the international students towards their acceptance on Malay food in Malaysia universities. A total of 352 students from Asia, Middle East, America, Europe and Africa have participated in this study and findings revealed that acculturation has a positive relationship with Malay food acceptance (β=.281, p< 0.001) whilst uncertainty avoidance recorded a negative relationship (β=-.165, p<0.001). As a result, study indicates that international students in Malaysia are able to accept Malay food although there is a difference in taste, texture and aroma.
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author	Mohd Sanip, Nurul Amira
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title	Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip
title_short	Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip
title_full	Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip
title_fullStr	Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip
title_full_unstemmed	Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip
title_sort	acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of malay food / nurul amira mohd sanip
publishDate	2013
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Acculturation and uncertainty avoidances of the international students on the acceptance of Malay food / Nurul Amira Mohd Sanip

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