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Direct linkBowman, Nicholas A.; Felix, Vivienne – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
Despite considerable research on student retention and persistence, college graduation rates remain modest. This article proposes the concept of student identity centrality, which is defined as the extent to which being a student is important to one's self-image or identity. This study found student identity centrality was positively related to…
Descriptors: Success, College Students, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Raacke, John; Bonds-Raacke, Jennifer – Educational Psychology, 2015
The rapid growth in popularity of social networking sites has spurred research exploring the impact of usage in a variety of areas. The current study furthered this line of research by examining the relationships between social network usage and adjustment to college in the academic, social, personal-emotional and university affiliation domains.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Student Adjustment, College Students, Comparative Analysis
McNulty, Kristy Lee Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study utilized a quality of life framework of psychosocial adaptation to explore relationships among college stress, functional limitations, coping strategies, and perceived social suport in adjustment to college among first-year and second-year undergraduate students with disabilities, based on specific hypothesized relations. College…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Adjustment, Disabilities, Stress Variables
Adjustment to College in Nonresidential First-Year Students: The Roles of Stress, Family, and Coping
Gefen, Dalia R.; Fish, Marian C. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
This study explored factors related to college adjustment in nonresidential first-year students. It was hypothesized that stress, family functioning, and coping strategies would predict academic, personal-emotional, and social adjustment in addition to institutional attachment. The sample comprised 167 first-year college students (ages 18-23)…
Descriptors: Coping, Stress Variables, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
Download full textGold, J.; And Others – 1990
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the perceptions of black undergraduate students of their adjustment to a predominantly white university and academic success. The responses of a sample of 29 black freshman education majors at a midwestern university on the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Students, College Freshmen
Hickman, Gregory P.; Andrews, David W. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2003
A self-report questionnaire on academic achievement, birth order, and family structure; the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire; the Parental Authority Questionnaire; and the Coping Humor Scale were administered to 257 first-year college students. Researchers examined the relationships among (a) authoritative parenting style, (b) family…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Adjustment, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Questionnaires
