International education provides students with an opportunity to develop new social networks while they fit in to the new culture. In a three-wave longitudinal study, we investigated how social networks and psychological adjustment coevolve within a group of international students enrolled in a coursework degree at the tertiary level. Using the Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model (SAOM), we identified the occurrences of social selection based on the levels of psychological and sociocultural adjustment. More specifically, students tended to deselect classmates who were dissimilar in their level of psychological adjustment and to befriend those who differed in their levels of sociocultural adjustment. In contrast, little evidence was found to suggest that features of social networks influenced students’ adjustment. Potential applications of this new method to future acculturation research are suggested.

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留学生跨文化适应：社会选择还是社会影响？

国际教育为学生提供了在适应新文化的同时发展新社交网络的机会。在一项三波纵向研究中，我们调查了在国际一级就读课程的国际学生群体中，社交网络和心理调节是如何协同发展的。使用随机演员导向模型（SAOM），我们根据心理和社会文化适应水平确定了社会选择的发生。更具体地说，学生倾向于取消心理调节水平不同的同学，并与社交文化调节水平不同的同学交朋友。相反，几乎没有证据表明社交网络的特征会影响学生的适应能力。