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Direct linkCara Petrofes; Krista Howard; Azucena Mayberry; Catherine Bitney; Natalie Ceballos – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We investigated psychological factors that might predispose individuals to sad-fish or exaggerate their emotional state online to generate sympathy. Participants: Participants (N = 347) were collegiate social media users from a large university in the Southcentral United States. Methods: Participants completed an anonymous online survey…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Social Media, Social Support Groups, Intervention
Lee, Jungup; Cheung, Hoi Shan; Chee, Grace; Chai, Valentino Emil – School Mental Health, 2021
Bullying involvement tends to bring about greater mental health problems among school-aged youths, and research suggests that empathy and attachment may play crucial roles in mitigating these adverse consequences. However, little is known about how different types of bullying involvement continue to contribute to mental health in higher education.…
Descriptors: Empathy, Attachment Behavior, Student Attitudes, Anxiety
Varghese, Mary E.; Pistole, M. Carole – Journal of College Counseling, 2017
In an online survey (N = 338) at a large midwestern university, frequency counts indicated that 51 (15.1%) undergraduate students were cyberbully victims during college, and 27 (8.0%) were cyberbully offenders during college. In simultaneous regressions, maternal attachment anxiety explained unique variance in cybervictimization and…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Depression (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Online Surveys
Richman, Alice R.; Webb, Monica C.; Eicher, Lesley; Adams, Phyllis; Troutman, Jamie – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2017
Objective: This study aimed to assist college healthcare providers with patient communication by determining the relationship terminology commonly used by college students. Participants: A total of 17 female college students participated in four focus groups across two Universities. Participants were primarily white (71%) and heterosexual (88%).…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Health Behavior, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication
Weiqin, Eliza Leong; Campbell, Marilyn; Kimpton, Melanie; Wozencroft, Kelly; Orel, Alexandra – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
Online relationship formation through social networking sites helps to meet the developmental need for intimacy in emerging adults. Through the use of the "rich get richer" and the "social compensation" hypotheses, it is evident that personality characteristics such as extraversion and introversion impact online relationship…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Social Media, Personality Traits, Computer Mediated Communication
Saeed, Murad Abdu; Ghazali, Kamila; Sahuri, Sakina Suffian; Abdulrab, Mohammed – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The current case study aimed to investigate the engagement of nine English as foreign language (EFL) learners in online peer feedback on writing in a Facebook group. Specifically, the study focused on the issues of writing addressed in peer feedback and the learners' perception of peer feedback in the Facebook group. Background: Peer…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Feedback (Response)
Klein, Michael C. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2013
College counseling clinicians need to understand how students use technology to form, sustain, and end romantic attachments. Students now frequently incorporate aspects of these technologically based interactions, or mediated communications, into counseling sessions and often make important attributions based on them. Heavy daily use of a growing…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Attachment Behavior, Intimacy, College Students
Sarigiani, Pamela A.; Trumbell, Jill M.; Camarena, Phame M. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
Electronic communications technologies (ECTs) help college students and parents remain in contact. Because recent reports have emphasized a link between ECTs, helicopter parenting, and autonomy issues, this study focused on the significance of contact patterns for attachment and student adjustment. First-semester college students (199 female, 81…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, Parenting Styles, Personal Autonomy
Han, Heeyoung; Johnson, Scott D. – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between students' emotional intelligence, social bond, and their interactions in an online learning environment. The research setting in this study was a 100% online master's degree program within a university located in the Midwest of the United States. Eighty-four students participated…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Stephenson-Abetz, Jenna; Holman, Amanda – Western Journal of Communication, 2012
This study adopts a dialectical perspective to explore how students transitioning to college communicatively negotiate the web of old and new relationships in the age of Facebook. Interpretive thematic analysis of 30 interviews revealed three discursive struggles: preservation and (re)invention, uniqueness and conformity, and openness and…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Internet, Role
Harper, Vernon, Jr. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
Virtual communities are quickly becoming the standard mode of interaction in educational and professional contexts. However, the literature fails to accurately address the possibility of differences in the perceptions of these communities related to sex. Two-hundred and twenty-six students from a medium-sized university in the Mid-Atlantic United…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Friendship, Gender Differences, Measures (Individuals)
Hodge, Gail D. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Prior studies have shown that students who are the first in their families to attend college fail to persist in college more so than their continuing-generation (CG) counterparts do. Prior research on this phenomenon has helped to identify various factors that contribute to the lower college persistence of first-generation (FG) students. For…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Grade Point Average, Income, Academic Persistence
Wartman, Katherine Lynk, Ed.; Savage, Marjorie, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2008
This monograph is divided into three main sections: theoretical grounding, student identity, and implications. The first section, theoretical grounding of parental involvement, looks at the reasons parents today are more likely to be involved in their students' lives and then reviews the literature of K-12 education and compares that information…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, College Students, Parent Student Relationship, Parent School Relationship
