A Balance of Tripod Model about Satisfaction Changing Patterns for Short-term Intemational Students from/to Japan that Focused on Involvement in Host Societies

The purpose of the study is to explore satisfaction changing patterns for short-term international students from the student's individual perspective. The study employed projective methods for a total of fourteen participants. Eight of them were international students in Japan and sic of them were Japanese students studying abroad. They drew figures representing changes in their satisfaction and explained them while studying abroad. The figures did not follow the U-curve but the reasons for satisfaction maximums were controlled by events they experienced during their study abroad. That is, the reasons behind maximums were found to be recreational events while the reasons behind minimums were negative events. A balance of tripod model among recreation, study and cultural experiences is proposed in order to explain the satisfaction of international students. Lastly, given the results of the study, the way to increase the sense of satisfaction of short-term international students is also discussed.科学研究費補助金（萌芽研究No.19653099 代表・髙濵愛