Social network sites and international students’ cross-cultural adaptation
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Highlights：
• Directed communication with local host nationals reduced uncertainty.
• Directed communication with local co-nationals increased uncertainty.
• Results suggest SNSs supplement offline communication.
• Results extend anxiety/uncertainty management theory.
• SNS effect depends on how and with whom to communicate.
摘要
•Directed communication with local host nationals reduced uncertainty.•Directed communication with local co-nationals increased uncertainty.•Results suggest SNSs supplement offline communication.•Results extend anxiety/uncertainty management theory.•SNS effect depends on how and with whom to communicate.
论文关键词：Anxiety/uncertainty management theory,Social network site,Cross-cultural adaptation,Uncertainty reduction,Local host nationals
论文评审过程：Available online 28 March 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.041
