Table 1.

Basic information of interviewed international students.

No.	Gender	Major	Identity	Length of time in the UK
1	Female	Statistics	Undergraduate	1 year
2	Female	Communication engineering	Master’s degree candidate	half a year
3	Female	Finance	Master’s degree candidate	1 year
4	Female	Sociology	Doctoral student	half a year
5	Male	Nursing	Undergraduate	half a year
6	Female	Clinical medicine	Doctoral student	half a year
7	Male	Control science and Engineering	Doctoral student	2 years
8	Male	Human resource management	Undergraduate	4 years
9	Female	Higher education	Doctoral student	6 years
10	Male	International management	Master’s degree candidate	3 years
11	Male	Marketing	Undergraduate	3 years
12	Female	Social media	Master’s degree candidate	1 year