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Justin Well – Journal of International Students, 2024
Research on third-culture individuals (TCIs) is an emerging topic in college student development. However, while emerging literature on TCIs exists, research on TCIs' personal development in postsecondary contexts is still lacking. This literature review addresses this issue. In this review, I argue that the literature predominantly illustrates…
Descriptors: Student Development, College Students, Self Concept, Global Approach
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Mazzoni, Elvis; Iannone, Maria – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
In recent years, the huge success of social network sites (SNSs) has principally been determined by their ability to link people and their respective relationships. These relationships allow people to access different resources, information, emotional and social support, entertainment, as well as providing them with the opportunity to extend…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Social Capital, Interpersonal Relationship
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Brown, Carrie L.; Love, Keisha M.; Tyler, Kenneth M.; Garriot, Patton O.; Thomas, Deneia; Roan-Belle, Clarissa – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2013
Parental attachment and familial communalism were examined as contributors to the racial identity of 165 African American college students. Students with secure attachments and high reports of communalism were in the later stage of their racial identity development, whereas students with insecure attachments and lacking communalism were in the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Racial Identification, College Students, African American Students
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Bankoff, Sarah M.; Valentine, Sarah E.; Jackson, Michelle A.; Schacht, Rebecca L.; Pantalone, David W. – Journal of American College Health, 2013
Objective: To examine correlates of compensatory weight control behaviors among women in transition between adolescence and adulthood. Participants: The authors recruited a sample of undergraduate women ("N" = 759) at a large northwestern university during the 2009-2010 academic year. Methods: Logistic regression was used to assess…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Regression (Statistics), Body Weight, Health Behavior
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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
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Forrest, Kelly A.; Judd, Kathy R.; Davison, Jodi R. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2012
This article is an autoenthnographic account of the yearlong journey of two undergraduates and their instructor when the traditional classroom structures associated with the banking concept of education were altered in an upper division class and follow-on research experiences. These changes focused on foregrounding students' experiences of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Course Content, Attachment Behavior, Learner Engagement