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Boeck, Claire A.; Torres, Vasti; Bush, Mollie – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
Feeling a part of a university community is an important factor in college students' success, yet little is known about how transfer students construct a sense of community at their new institutions. Drawing from surveys and interviews of transfer students at a highly selective university, we used a multi-method approach to understand the elements…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, Group Membership
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Richards, K. Andrew R.; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Service learning can help students to engage in the community while applying lessons learned in their coursework. Using self-determination theory, we evaluated the relationship among self-efficacy, self-regulated motivation, and civic learning in service learning courses. Participants included 242 college students (122 females, 120 males) across…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Self Efficacy, Self Determination, Self Management
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Rockenbach, Alyssa N.; Bowman, Nicholas A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between interfaith engagement and self-authored worldview commitment among 13,776 students enrolled at one of 52 institutions. Results indicated an association between formal and informal interfaith engagement and that this relationship was conditioned upon self-identified worldview.…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Religion, Individual Development, Religious Factors
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Johnson, Matthew – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
The development of college students' civic identity is understudied, but worthy of attention because of its salience to many students and higher education's commitment to fostering an engaged citizenry. Using 45,271 participants from the 2009 Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, this study uses structural equation modeling to explore…
Descriptors: College Students, Sociocultural Patterns, Citizenship, Identification (Psychology)
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Cho, Jaehee; Lee, Seungjo – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Considering the continuous increase of international students, the main goal of this study was to examine how international students' proactive behaviors, particularly information seeking behaviors, would impact key emotional outcomes including communication satisfaction with instructors and school-life satisfaction. For this investigation, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Prediction, Student Behavior, Information Seeking
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Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie – Journal of College Student Development, 2004
Little is known about first generation students whose parents did not attend college and specifically their experiences surrounding educational outcomes of college. This study used structural equation modeling to investigate differences in first generation and non-first generation students using data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, First Generation College Students, Longitudinal Studies, Structural Equation Models