ABSTRACT
Exposure to a foreign culture presses sojourners to adjust on many different levels to the strange, exciting, exasperating, and sometimes threatening encounters embedded in everyday living. This chapter examines both psychological and socio-cultural adjustment within the context of another conceptualization concerning intercultural adjustment: acculturation. Acculturation strategies have implications for intercultural adjustment of study abroad students, especially within the context of the interaction between the students’ home and host cultures. The attainment of knowledge and skills to manage the tasks of daily life in a foreign culture mark adjustment at the socio-cultural level. The dramatic differences between the US and Greek cultures set the stage for a disconnect between psychological and socio-cultural adjustment.
