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Michal Glówczewski; Stanislaw Burdziej; Adrian Dominik Wójcik – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Our work contributes to existing research on student loyalty by testing a model that includes organisational justice as a predictor. In Study 1 (n = 257, Polish sample), students' perceived organisational justice of their university was a positive predictor of their loyalty. In Study 2 (n = 522, Polish sample), we replicated these findings and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Universities
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Cara 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
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Clear, Sarah J.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Attachment theory and previous research on emotion regulation (ER) suggest that ER will be associated with adult attachment orientation, with the expectation of different associations of attachment avoidance, anxiety, and security with specific ER patterns. In addition, research has shown that the emotion under consideration and the context may…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Security (Psychology), Priming
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Pepanyan, Marine; Meacham, Sohyun; Logan, Stephanie – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to focus on the difference between perceptions of single and married international students. Four aspects are discussed to explain this issue: comfort level of international students in a host environment, their cultural representation, language competence/barrier and major challenges related to the host…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Alienation, Comparative Analysis, Marital Status
Goward, Shonda L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to understand how social class background plays a role in student experiences on selective campuses. This study centers the experience of low-income students and extends the work of Ostrove and Long (2007). Previous research has indicated that race, gender, and social class status have each, respectively, been…
Descriptors: Social Class, Scores, Student Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment
Valdez, Guadalupe Flores – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research on attachment in adult relationships has included minimal studies to encompass a Hispanic population. Mexican Americans have specific characteristics grounded in historical, demographic, and family contexts which are different from other groups. Therefore, cross-cultural validation of instruments to assess family relationships increases…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Attachment Behavior, Interpersonal Relationship, Factor Analysis
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Lane, Forrest C.; Martin, Georgianna L.; Henson, Robin K. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Institutional belonging has been connected in the literature to college student well-being, achievement, persistence, and retention. However, much of this literature uses a one-dimensional scale to examine this construct. The University Attachment Scale (UAS; France, Finney, & Swerdzewski, 2010) is a multidimensional instrument with purported…
Descriptors: College Students, Attachment Behavior, Group Membership, Group Unity
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Kang, Sunwoo; Youn, Gahyun; Stilwell, William E. – College Student Journal, 2014
Even though college students may be faced with developmental life tasks that might lead them to cognitive and emotional growth, little is known about how college students' life experiences are related to their cultural values. Understanding college students' life across culture requires both exploratory and confirmatory approaches to examine (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Experience, Cultural Influences
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Bennett, Susanne; Mohr, Jonathan; Deal, Kathleen Holtz; Hwang, Jeongha – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objective: This study focused on interrelationships among supervisor attachment, supervisory working alliance, and supervision-related affect, plus the moderating effect of a field instructor training. Method: The researchers employed a pretest-posttest follow-up design of 100 randomly assigned field instructors and 64 students in two…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Attachment Behavior, Work Environment, Training
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Reese-Weber, Marla; Smith, Dana M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The association between a history of child sexual abuse (CSA) and specific negative outcomes (attachment, feelings of power, and self-esteem) was explored as was the relationship between those negative outcomes and sexual victimization during the first semester of college. Two groups of freshman college women (67 who had experienced CSA and 55 who…
Descriptors: Correlation, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Victims of Crime
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Olson, Chris G. – Christian Higher Education, 2011
This article presents some of the findings from a recent study on adult students (25 years and older) in Christian nontraditional programs and the implications these findings have for Christian higher education. One goal of the study was to develop a better understanding of adult spirituality. Utilizing a descriptive, cross-sectional survey…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Christianity, Higher Education, College Programs
Lane, Forrest C.; Henson, Robin K. – Online Submission, 2012
School attachment has received considerable attention in K-12 literature but it is relatively unexplored at the post-secondary level. The university attachment scale (UAS) is a new instrument designed to bridge this gap and previous research suggests transfer students score lower on group attachment than non-transfer students. However, these…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Transfer Students, Learner Engagement
Pilotte, Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined how first-year undergraduates' family background characteristics (i.e., first-generation status and low family income) and individual attributes (i.e., sex, motivation, and best friend attachment) are related to institutional integration (faculty and student integration). Low and non-low family income students (N = 961)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Family Characteristics, Low Income Groups
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Mattanah, Jonathan F.; Lopez, Frederick G.; Govern, John M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
We report findings from a meta-analysis of 156 studies conducted between 1987 and 2009 (N = 32,969) that examined the relationship between self-reported parental attachment and multiple adjustment outcomes and developmental advances during the college years. Overall, a small-to-medium relationship was found between indicators of parental…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Effect Size, Developmental Tasks, Student Development
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Yazedjian, Ani; Toews, Michelle L.; Navarro, Alice – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine whether college adjustment mediated the relationship between parental factors, such as parental attachment, parental education, and parental expectations, and academic achievement among White and Hispanic first-year college students. We found that adjustment mediated the relationship between parental…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences, Academic Achievement
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