The Role of Personality Traits and Demographic Characteristics in Psychological and Sociocultural Adjustment: Evidence from International Pakistani Scholars

Studying away from home is a divergent experience; exciting and stressful for students studying abroad. The present study examined the role of demographic variables personality, in sociocultural adjustment, acculturative stress Pakistani Muslim International students. Two hundred seventy participated this study. Data were collected using consent form, Acculturative Stress Scale Students, Sociocultural Adjustment Scale-Revised (SCAS-R), Big Five Inventory-The BFI (John & Srivastava, 1999). According to results, predicted while personality contributed predicting adjustment. It was also observed that no played significant Extraversion neuroticism positive predictors stress. Other such as six subscales strings, five interaction with other further context culture. results highlighted factors affected stress, traits promoted adjustment international current provided important information suggested importance perseverance selection abroad Higher Education Commission Pakistan contributing Implications regarding need initiate counseling services vulnerable students, implementation policies at institutional government levels assist facilitating their stay abroad, discussed.