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Direct linkHerrera, Nancy; Castellanos, Jeanett; Gloria, Alberta M. – Education and Urban Society, 2022
As California is one of the primary states with the highest influx of Latinxs, the rise of Latinx enrollment in California high schools calls to the importance of understanding methods to increase academic and overall wellness. Cultural congruity (i.e., match of one's cultural values with those of the educational setting) is hypothesized to…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Coping, Cultural Relevance, High School Students
Bhagvat J. Maheta; Afroze Khan; Samantha Skinner; Melanie S. Dove – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To evaluate the change in tobacco use by college students in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Young adults (18-24 years) currently enrolled in a California college or university (N = 212). Methods: Students recruited through social media posts and by student tobacco advocate members completed an online survey of 59…
Descriptors: Smoking, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Yung, Shun Ting; Chen, Yaoyu; Zawadzki, Matthew J. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Changes in surroundings and social relationships may heighten feelings of loneliness, suggesting the need to measure as a state. This study tested whether loneliness fluctuates within and across days and the resultant associations with psychological distress. Further it tested familism as a moderator as endorsing this cultural value may…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Predictor Variables
Carlisa Bertha Simon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is comprised of two studies that investigate the nuances of parent and peer ethnic racial socialization (ERS). I focus on the dynamic relationship between parent and peer ERS by examining its frequency and effects specifically for Black emerging adults in college as well as uncovering the prevalence of Black college students'…
Descriptors: Socialization, African American Students, Individual Development, Psychological Patterns
David M. Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the academic and psychosocial challenges, supports and resources that Latino men who are first-generation college students experience while attending a Hispanic Serving Institution in the California State University system. Theoretical Framework: Latinx Critical theory (LatCrit)…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Males, First Generation College Students, Student Experience
Taylor Danielle Akason; Cindy Miller-Perrin – Journal of College and Character, 2024
This study examined how faith community interaction and faith community harmony relate to both state and trait body dissatisfaction, loneliness, and sociocultural pressures on appearance among college undergraduates. Participants (N = 1519) were college undergraduate students attending a private university in California. Participants included 546…
Descriptors: College Students, Religious Factors, Psychological Patterns, Social Isolation
Download full textAmy Sprowles; Jessica Smith; Patricia Siering; Steven Margell; Frank Shaughnessy; Alison O'Dowd; Kerri J. Malloy; Matthew P. Hurst; P. Dawn Goley; Lisa Morehead-Hillman; Borbolla Mazzag; Gillian Black; L. Chook Chook Hillman; Dale Oliver; Katlin R. Goldenberg; Angela Rich; Sonja Manor; Matthew D. Johnson; Eileen Cashman – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Deficits in college degree attainment limit important perspectives and ways of knowing that inspire creativity and innovation. Disproportional outcomes for racially minoritized groups that are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exacerbate this problem and promote societal inequities, structural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Indigenous Knowledge, STEM Education, Cultural Awareness
Mariana Macias Zepeda – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological study was to understand and describe the lived experiences of adult English language learners previously enrolled in English as a Second Language Noncredit (ESLN) courses who were persisting in credit coursework through the lens of Bean and Metzner's (1985) nontraditional student attrition model. The…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English Language Learners, Community College Students, Noncredit Courses
Jacquelyn Chin; Samantha Mattis; Josceline Acosta; Amaranta Ramirez; David Rivera; Adrian Valadez; Kathleen Baca Leanos; Isaiah Jones; Alison Cerezo – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic upended the academic trajectories and opportunities of many community college students in the United States. While four-year universities have seen an uptick in applications in the 2021-2022 academic year, community colleges have experienced a sharp decrease in enrollment, signifying significant…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Financial Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
Elizabeth Louanne Keele – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem in this study is lack of research regarding perceptions of first-year nontraditional students (FYNTSs) who are enrolled in a face-to-face community college course regarding how mobile learning in the classroom affects their emotional engagement. Understanding this provides critical insights as well as enhanced and more accessible…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Handheld Devices
Elizabeth Mckay Cooke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study assesses the influence of a college-level intervention program on its student participants' self-efficacy. Self-efficacy theory provides an essential foundational lens for this study as it provides the necessary sources to broaden an intervention program's plans from students' individualized experiences. Study participants…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Student Development, Intervention
Wun, Connie – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
While most research examining school discipline policies have focused on the experiences of boys of color, this article explores the relationship between violence and school discipline as they shape the lives of girls of color and their disciplinary records. Using in-depth interviews, this article re-narrates the experiences of Black and non-Black…
Descriptors: Females, School Policy, Discipline Policy, African American Students
Ray, James V.; Frick, Paul J.; Thornton, Laura C.; Wall Myers, Tina D.; Steinberg, Laurence; Cauffman, Elizabeth – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Research has only recently begun to examine how callous-unemotional (CU) traits interact with contextual factors to predict delinquent behavior. The current study attempts to explain the well-established link between CU traits and offending by testing the potential mediating and moderating roles of 2 critical contextual factors: peer delinquency…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Delinquency, Peer Influence
Pabillore-Olinger, Euline – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This exploratory qualitative study focuses on the voices of post-traditional learners (students older than 25 with work and family responsibilities) at a California rural community college setting and their perceptions of how faculty-student interactions impacted their sense of validation and support. Themes of the different types of…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Two Year College Students, Nontraditional Students, Adult Students
Romo, Laura F.; Magana, Diana; Gutierrez-Serrano, Gabriela – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2020
Latino first-generation college students face a unique set of challenges that are not part of the college experience of their non-first-generation counterparts. Nonetheless, many Latinos remain optimistic about overcoming barriers that might impede their educational pursuits. The present study was aimed at exploring factors that contribute to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Educational Attainment, Hispanic American Students, First Generation College Students
