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Tianchen Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students spend little time completing tasks when deadlines are far off; however, they tend to increase their work amounts as deadline approaches. This phenomenon, which is called deadline rush, can be modeled by exponential distributions. Deadline reactivity, represented by a rate parameter of the exponential distribution, parameterizes individual…
Descriptors: Time Management, Decision Making, College Students, Educational Environment
Robyn Gabrielle McCormick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Federal government policies have shifted the financial burdens of paying for college away from the public (e.g., grants and scholarships) to more onus placed on students and their families (Elliott & Friedline, 2013; Robb, 2011). However, budget cuts due to economic challenges often increase tuition rates (Orfield, 2002) that outpace what…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Financial Support, Tuition, Educational Finance
Joshua C. Burton – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Despite current trend analyses highlighting declining alcohol use in college students, this population remains at significant risk for alcohol's negative consequences. Though efforts to address these problems are not in short supply, research dedicated to this field has reported mild to moderate effects that decay over time. One method is to…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Intervention, Behavior Problems
Justin Christopher Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative, non-experimental study examined the relationship between authenticity and well-being/flourishing in college students at a private, residential 4-year college. For the purposes of this study, authenticity is a tripartite construct comprising an accurate conscious awareness of self, acting congruently with that self, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Well Being, Success, Personality Traits
Caroline Kaufmann Twachtman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
First-year seminar (FYS) courses tend to focus on preparing students for successful academic and social integration into the college environment. Many of the studies on FYS courses focus on measuring outcomes such as college grades, retention, and graduation rates. While there is notable documentation of several different types of FYS courses,…
Descriptors: College Students, First Year Seminars, Student Participation, Student Characteristics
Shondrika M. Merritt – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The dialogue around violence against women has gone from a private matter to a national audience, primarily due to the sexual violence on college campuses and a recognition that it is part of a comprehensive system of power that affects all women. Researchers have shown that sexual violence is a significant issue on college campuses and there are…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, African Americans, Rape
Messina, Bryan Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Alcohol consumption and related negative consequences continues to be a systemic societal problem. College students are a population that has been identified as particularly high risk for a number of negative consequences as they are more likely to engage in binge drinking and heavy episodic drinking even when compared to same age non-college…
Descriptors: Drinking, Health Behavior, Alcohol Abuse, College Students
Wattenmaker McGann, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Previous literature provides an overview of the multiple relationships between alcohol use, protective behavioral strategies (PBS), alcohol-related negative consequences, depression, and sleep problems among college students, as well as differences by individual level characteristics, such as age, gender, and race/ethnicity. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: College Students, Sleep, Drinking, Depression (Psychology)
Ball, Albert L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although reports of identity theft continue to be widely published, users continue to post an increasing amount of personal information online, especially within social networking sites (SNS) and e-learning systems (ELS). Research has suggested that many users lack awareness of the threats that risky online personal information sharing poses to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Social Networks, Web Sites
Karabin, Beverly Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study described the factors that contribute to engagement patterns of college students with the hidden health-related disability of orthostatic intolerance. Specifically, it used a qualitative methodology and collective-case study design to explore the categories of campus physical, institutional, academic and social engagement from a student…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Development, Participant Observation, Self Advocacy