Personal “Barriers” of Adaptation of the Chinese Students to Training in the Russian Higher Education Institution

The article analyses personal factors identifi ed by foreign authors as resources or ‘barriers’ of adaptation of Chinese students to study abroad. Results of comparative psychodiagnostics of properties of the identity of the Chinese students who train in the Russian and Chinese higher education institutions are given. Recommendations about the mobilisation of adaptive resources of Chinese students who are trained abroad are developed.

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