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Direct linkSun, Jie; Hagedorn, Linda Serra; Zhang, Yi – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
For this study we identified factors exerting significant influence on homesickness and explored the impact of the homesick experience on students' academic performance and retention in the first year in college. The findings reveal 2 constructs underlying the homesickness scale: homesick separation and homesick distress. Demographic variables…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen
Baier, Stefanie T.; Markman, Barry S.; Pernice-Duca, Francesca M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
We surveyed 237 first-time college students to examine the extent to which social-cognitive factors--self-efficacy, perceptions of mentorship, high school GPA, ACT scores, first-semester college GPA, and demographic characteristics-- influence freshmen's intent to persist. Standard multiple regression and MANOVA were conducted to determine the…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, College Freshmen, Social Influences, Self Efficacy
Riutta, Satu; Teodorescu, Daniel – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
While leadership development is considered an important goal of education on many campuses, very little is known about how leadership skills develop in a diverse environment, which most colleges will be in the future. We compare causes for Socially Responsible Leadership (SRL) at the end of college students' first year in one diverse liberal arts…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Campuses, Leadership Qualities, Skill Development
Tatum, Jerry L.; Foubert, John D. – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
Male perpetrated sexual aggression has long been recognized as a serious problem on college campuses. The purpose of this multiple regression correlation study was to assess the relationship between levels of moral development (measured by the Defining Issues Test) and the degree to which first-year college men (N = 161) ascribed to rape…
Descriptors: Campuses, Rape, Misconceptions, Multiple Regression Analysis
Lee, Donghyuck; Olson, Elizabeth A.; Locke, Ben; Michelson, Sandra Testa; Odes, Eleonora – Journal of College Student Development, 2009
For this study, we examined the relationship between counseling experience and college students' academic performance and retention in a sample of 10,009 college freshmen and transfer students. The results indicated that counseling experience is significantly associated with student retention: students receiving counseling services were more…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
Lounsbury, John W.; Huffstetler, Beverly C.; Leong, Frederick T. L.; Gibson, Lucy W. – Journal of College Student Development, 2005
In a sample of 434 university freshmen, Sense of Identity was found to be positively related to GPA, even controlling for the Big Five personality traits of Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Openness. Similar correlations were found for racial and gender subgroups. When all study variables entered a stepwise…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Personality Traits
