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…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the perceptions of black undergraduate students of their adjustment to a predominantly white university and academic success. The responses of a sample of 29 black freshman education majors at a midwestern university on the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) were…

A self-report questionnaire on academic achievement, birth order, and family structure; the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire; the Parental Authority Questionnaire; and the Coping Humor Scale were administered to 257 first-year college students. Researchers examined the relationships among (a) authoritative parenting style, (b) family…