The Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities together with the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University in Kalisz have the honor to invite you to the third lecture in the “IAS Invited Lecture Series in Issues in Second Language Learning and Teaching”
Abstract: This mixed methods study focuses on the effect of Study Abroad (SA) on the mental well-being of 33 Anglophone students who spent between 4 and 12 months in Francophone countries. It investigates the relationship between well-being and personality traits. Statistical analyses revealed no significant change in well-being between the start, the middle and the end of the SA. A closer look at individual patterns showed large fluctuations, with half of participants scoring higher and the other half scoring lower between the start and the middle of the SA. The narratives of three participants whose well-being scores increased most were not very different from the three participants whose well-being scores decreased most, and only (lower) Emotional Stability was linked with the increase in well-being. At group level, well-being was not significantly linked to personality traits. The apparent stability of well-being during SA seems to be the result of upward and downward patterns cancelling each other out.
If you are interested in participating in the lecture, register here by 9th January 2022 (we will send you a link to the meeting after this date): https://forms.office.com/pages/
