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Grandy, Thomas G.; Stahmann, Robert F. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1974
This study focused on the efficiency of family variables in predicting university student personality types (expressed occupational choices) within the framework of Holland's theory. Eight of 22 family variables emerged as the best predictors of personality types. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making, Family Influence
Nagle, George; And Others – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1976
Predictability of GPA of college students who successfully appealed admission denial was evaluated by a reciprocal averages technique. Index scores for these high-risk students obtained from 5 of 23 variables correlated significantly with GPA in developmental and cross-validation samples. A trial use of the index to screen in applicants was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Higher Education
Lowman, Robert P.; Spuck, Dennis W. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1975
For 75 Mexican-American students in a transition year program at selective private colleges, multiple regression analysis revealed that nontraditional predictors such as low income, English difficulty, denied regular college admission, and high school underachievement with high IQ accounted for more variance in first year college success than did…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Ethnic Groups, Higher Education
Etaugh, Claire – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1975
University students' attitudes toward women were significantly associated with the following variables: sex, church affiliation, major field, grade point average, years of college, size of home town, mother's employment status, race, loneliness during teen years, religiosity, mother's attitude toward homemaking, and (for married students) number…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Predictor Variables
Chase, Clinton I.; Johnson, Judith J. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1977
A number of studies have shown the relationship between College Board test scores and college grade point averages for Black students. This study found that two personal data items--number of courses taken in high school English and rank in the high school class--discriminated between successful and nonsuccessful college students. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Black Education, Black Students