Resilience among international university students

This diploma thesis examines the construction of resilience among international university students studying in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to understand how their resilience is formed in the context of living and studying abroad. The theoretical part elaborates on the key concepts of resilience and the characteristics of international university students. The empirical part of the thesis describes the course of the research, the research sample, and the process of data collection and analysis. Subsequently, the research results are presented, which illustrate the process through which international students construct their resilience. The research involved 10 university students (five women, five men) from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, aged 20-22, who have been living in the Czech Republic for at least two years and study in the Czech language. Data collection took place in the form of semi-structured interviews and was supplemented by a letter that the participants wrote to their "past self" from the period when they moved to the Czech Republic. The collected data was analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. The analysis identified two overarching themes: Tension between the roles of adult and child, and Us versus Them. Together, these themes capture how the respondents...