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McNulty, Kristy Lee Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study utilized a quality of life framework of psychosocial adaptation to explore relationships among college stress, functional limitations, coping strategies, and perceived social suport in adjustment to college among first-year and second-year undergraduate students with disabilities, based on specific hypothesized relations. College…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Adjustment, Disabilities, Stress Variables
Force, Christina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Cyberbullying affects almost half of the teenagers in America (National Crime Prevention Council [NCPC], 2010). The effects of cyberbullying can be detrimental to teens and may include withdrawal from school activities, illness, depression, eating disorders, or suicidal ideations (Dehue, Bolman, & Vollink, 2008; Mason, 2008). In order to…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Discovery Processes, Case Studies, Middle Schools
Jarnagin, Lea Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
While the number of women entering the student affairs profession has increased, gender equity at the senior level of leadership remains elusive in the student affairs profession. In comparison to their presence in graduate preparation programs and lower levels of administration women continue to lag behind men in their rate of advancement to the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Females, College Administration
Scott, Ophelia Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if student background variables (age, gender, race, academic preparation); student status (part/full-time student), and student circumstances (commuting distance, independent/dependent financial student status) could predict fall-to-spring attrition (2006-2007) in a sample of 542 first-time,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Discovery Processes, College Freshmen, Community Colleges