When I live abroad, the result of a meta-analysis that will reveal myself and clarify what is important is announced, why?

The research showed that the level of 'clarity of self-concept' of what you are and what puts value on what is especially high when you live outside the country where you were born and raised. Writer'sOlga MeckingThinks to the experience of myself and why it produces such a result.

The shortest path to oneself leads around the world: Living abroad reduced self-concept clarity - ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597817301279

Should I live abroad? Research shows expats have a better sense of self - Quartz
https://qz.com/1246720/new-research-explains-why-moving-abroad-is-the-best-way-to-find-yourself/

Associate Professor Hajo Adams who studies Organizational Behavior Studies at Rice University meta-analyzed six studies on the clarity of the self-concept. This "clarity of self-concept" is measured in 12 sentences such as "how much people know about themselves", "their own beliefs often conflict" and "who they are often troubled" It was.

As a result, those who live on a land different from the one in which they were born and raised, in particular, said that the clarity of the self-concept was high. This is seen as being free from the bondage and expectations of their own countries, and by obtaining more opportunities, it is because they can understand something important for themselves. For example, Mr. Adams from Germany got to realize how much emphasis was on himself being accurate in time by immigrating to France "Naturally arriving late for parties". Adams says that by experiencing such experiences people will think slowly about their own sense of value.

In research, it is stated that clarifying self-concept is not the number of living countries, but the length that lived on that land. "I think about realistic things such as where I live in the first 5 weeks, which hospital I am going to be, after having settled in that place, I will focus on myself," Adams said .

byCatarina Sousa

Olga Mecking, a writer born in Poland and living in the Netherlands, has agreed to Mr. Adams' research results, superimposed on his own experience. Mecking started writing a blog, as she came to Holland with her second child pregnant, needed to train boredom, loneliness, and brain. At the beginning there was no purpose and it was Mecking who thought only to the extent of "I do not have a connection with other parents who are migrating abroad", gradually the idea gradually became floating, freelance I have posted articles on news sites such as Washington Post, Quartz, BBC and The Guardian as writers.

Also announced by Adams in 2010Another studySo, it is said that people living in a foreign country and touching different cultures will make people more creative, and Mr. Making agrees on this point as well. It is Mecking who did not plan to become a writer, but now he says that he likes to write more than anything. From living in an unknown land, becoming a writer by clarifying who he is and who puts value on what, "If I did not immigrate, I do not know if there was such a discovery" I am talking.

byLes Anderson