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This study involved 40 international high school students aged 15–17 from different regions of the world, completing their high school education in Russia, at a special school for the children of diplomats and highly-paid contract employees in Moscow. We studied: ideas about one’s psychological well-being with the help of a short essay; school-related problems with the help of the Student Adjustment Problems Inventory (SAPI); school anxiety with the help of the School Anxiety Questionnaire by Beeman N. Phillips (SAQ). The ideas about one’s psychological well-being were calculated using content analysis and translated into percentages. The assessment of school problems, as well as school anxiety, was calculated using the keys of questionnaires and numerical results were translated into percentages. The study is a pilot and descriptive. No statistical criteria were applied. It was found that, for this sample, ideas about their psychological well-being were linked to achievement of success in life, study and self-control. School problems related to perfectionism, parental expectations and multipotentiality. Their situational school anxiety is related to problems with teachers, frustration at the need for achievement and social stress. However, general anxiety in the vast majority of them is not characterized by high values. All this allows us to characterize this sample as being ambitious but at risk due to overstretch. The majority of high school students do not appear to be characterized by high values adults and peers, however, need to be investigated further.
Y. Y. Dubrovskaya—Independent Researcher.
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Dubrovskaya, Y.Y., Moskvitina, O.A. (2022). Psychological Well-Being of International Students Aged 15–17. In: Hunt, T., Tan, L.M. (eds) Applied Psychology Readings. SCAP 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5086-5_1
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