Samir Muhazzab Amin's scientific contributions

The sociocultural adaptation scale is a tool commonly used to assess how international students adjust to new cultures. Although it has been shown to be useful, there's little proof that it works well for students in non-Western countries. Our study aimed to create and test a version of this tool for international students in Malaysia, with 428 participants. We looked at whether the tool worked the same way for people of different genders, ages, and academic majors. At first, our results showed that the tool was not a perfect fit, but after careful adjustments, including removing items that did not fit well and improving how items were linked, we significantly improved how well the tool worked. The updated tool effectively measures how well international students adapt to new cultures. Moreover, our study found that the tool worked consistently across different demographic groups, offering new insights into how gender, age, and academic major affect students' sociocultural adaptation. These findings make the tool more useful in various settings and help us better understand the complex factors that influence how international students adjust to living in multicultural environments.

The difference in culture and education system makes the international student community adapt to the social changes, thus affecting their quality of life. Therefore, this study intends to examine the level of sociocultural adaptation and the Education ecosystem on the quality of life of the international student community in Malaysia. This study used quantitative methods with an exploratory research approach. 428 respondents were randomly chosen from five research universities: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Malaya, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Data were analysed descriptively and inferentially based on the objectives of the study. Overall, the study's findings show that the level of sociocultural adaptation is low, which is 55.1%, the educational ecosystem is high which is 57.2% and the quality of life is high, 52.1% among the international student community. In conclusion, the findings of this study show that international students in Malaysia experienced a good educational ecosystem and quality of life but have challenges adapting to socio-cultural. Therefore, higher education institutions in Malaysia need to pay attention to balanced development among the international student community to ensure that they can achieve well-being as outlined in the Fourth and Fifth Sustainable Development Goals.