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Tri Dang Nguyen; Marie McGregor – Journal of International Students, 2025
To examine the existing body of empirical research on social self-efficacy in international students, a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature was conducted, with a focus on articles published between 2013 and 2024. Four inclusion and exclusion criteria guided the search process across the Scopus, ProQuest, PsycINFO, and ERIC databases.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Sweet, Johanna; Swayze, Susan – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Psychological capital (PsyCap) is uniquely positioned at the intersection between student and academic institution. College administrators should look to psychological capital, beyond just student performance, for retention efforts in the financial management of the institution. The psychological capital and retention of four cohorts of freshmen…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Resilience (Psychology), School Holding Power, College Freshmen
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Williams, Helen; Roberts, Nicola – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
New first-year students are vulnerable to dropping out of university because the transition into higher education (HE) is difficult to navigate. Using thematic analysis, we analysed focus groups/interview, exit interviews and qualitative survey data with university students during their first year as criminology undergraduates to explore how they…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Identification (Psychology), School Holding Power
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Norma Ghamrawi; Reem Khalid Abu-Shawish; Tarek Shal; Najah A. R. Ghamrawi – Cogent Education, 2024
This phenomenological investigation examined teacher leadership within the context of higher education among novice faculty members with a specialization in educational leadership. These newcomers received informal guidance and support from specific faculty members whom they identified as exemplifying teacher leadership. The core methodology…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Higher Education, Context Effect, College Faculty
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Allison R. Byrd; Alexa J. Lamm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
Universities often overlook prospective graduate students--significant contributors to research productivity--as an audience requiring strategic recruitment communication. Uses and gratifications theory posits audiences intentionally select specific communication channels to fulfill self-actualization needs. Therefore, the purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Graduate Students, Agricultural Education, Environmental Education
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AlKhudari, Majed Numan – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
Social media networks have become a prominent role in forming social relations, especially among university students, the transmission of information, the circulation of data, and the spread of topics among students and all members of society. In addition, these networks reflect how people think, their lifestyles, and what issues they think about.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Social Networks
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Koo, Katie; Baker, Ian; Yoon, Jiyoon – Journal of International Students, 2021
We analyzed 192 first-year international college students in the Mid-Atlantic region to examine the change in international students' acculturative stress, adjustment, and collegiate experiences during their first year of enrollment in U.S. higher education. We found that male students, students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Student Satisfaction
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Myrtveit, Solbjørg Makalani; Askeland, Kristin Gärtner; Knapstad, Marit; Knudsen, Ann Kristin; Skogen, Jens Christoffer – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Norwegian universities and university colleges yearly arrange an introductory week to welcome new students. This study provides new insight about who takes part in the event, to what degree students are satisfied with the event, and whether participation is associated with social integration. Data from the Norwegian study of students' health and…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Universities
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Becker, Martin A. Swanbrow; Dong, Shengli; Kronholz, Julia; Brownson, Chris – Journal of International Students, 2018
This study explored the prevalence of stressors and their impact on distress for international students who did not seek help, those who sought either informal or professional help, and those who accessed both informal and professional help. Results indicated that international students underutilize professional support services when faced with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Help Seeking
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Eraslan-Capan, Bahtiyar – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
In recent years, positive psychology has focused on flourishing; a combination of social and emotional well-being. For flourishing to function optimally, social environments as well as hopeful future expectation are crucial. It can be inferred that social connectedness and hope might be predictor of flourishing in early adulthood. This study aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, State Universities, Interpersonal Relationship
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Naidoo, Devika – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Against the background of vast changes in doctoral education and the emergence of non-traditional doctoral programmes, this paper investigates the habitus of non-traditional PhD students at a South African university. Bourdieu's conceptual tool of habitus informed the study. In-depth and open-ended interviews were conducted with 10 non-traditional…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Interviews, Social Capital
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Gervasoni, Ann; Smith, Jeremy; Howard, Peter – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2013
This paper provides insight into the experience of Clemente humanities education for six regional and rural Australian women living around Ballarat. Each took part in an audio-taped semi-structured interview which explored the impact that university study had on their lives. Their responses suggest that Clemente Ballarat was life-giving. The…
Descriptors: Humanities, Womens Education, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Williams, Joanna – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Whilst in government, New Labour defined social exclusion as a state of "disadvantage" resulting from individual psychology: namely, low aspirations, a lack of self-confidence or moral deviancy. Engagement in lifelong learning was considered a means of promoting social inclusion and of overcoming such disadvantage. This policy review…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Discourse Analysis, Social Influences, Individual Psychology
Mitchell, Venita M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This case study used a revision of Tinto's theory of student departure and self-efficacy as frameworks, to explore the experiences of seven students of color who transferred to a small, private, and predominately White residential institution in the rural Midwest. All of the participants in this study faced challenges socially integrating…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, College Transfer Students, Self Efficacy, Rural Schools
Attewell, Paul, Ed.; Newman, Katherine S., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2010
The last half century has seen a dramatic expansion in access to primary, secondary, and higher education in many nations around the world. Educational expansion is desirable for a country's economy, beneficial for educated individuals themselves, and is also a strategy for greater social harmony. But has greater access to education reduced or…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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