TITLE:
A Study of the Impact of the International Student Cultural Festival on the Local Integration of International Students Visiting China: The Mediating Effect of Embodied Experience
AUTHORS:
Omarbekov Abdishukur
KEYWORDS:
Local Integration, Embodied Experience, Social Integration, International Students, Cultural Festivals
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.11 No.5,
September
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: Taking the visiting international students in
Suicheng as the research object, this paper analyzes the impact of the
International Students Festival on the local integration of the visiting
international students, and at the same time introduces
the embodied experience as a mediator variable, which is as follows: 1)
Through empirical analysis, it is verified that the demographic attributes of
the visiting international students have a partially significant impact on the
three variables of the embodied experience, participation in the festival
activities, and social integration. Among them, there is a significant
difference in the influence of the number of visiting international students’
participation in international students’ cultural exchanges on the experience
of embodiment, participation in festivals and activities, and social
integration; and there is a significant difference in the influence of the time
of visiting international students’ coming to China on the experience of
embodiment. 2) Through theoretical and empirical analyses, it is verified that
the participation of international students in festivals has a significant
positive effect on local integration, which is realized through the social and
emotional integration of the local community. The participation of
international students in festivals has a significant positive effect on their
own sexual experience; this effect is realized through the influence on the
international students’ embodied experience and embodied situation. 3) The mediating
effect of international students’ embodied sexual experience in the process of
local integration is mediated by their participation in festivals. This
mediating effect is realized through the following two ways: first, the
festival activity participation of visiting international students has a
significant positive effect on local social integration and emotional
integration through embodied experience; second, the experience of visiting
international students is that the activity participation has a significant
positive effect on local social integration and emotional integration through
embodied context.