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Cara Petrofes; Krista Howard; Azucena Mayberry; Catherine Bitney; Natalie Ceballos – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We investigated psychological factors that might predispose individuals to sad-fish or exaggerate their emotional state online to generate sympathy. Participants: Participants (N = 347) were collegiate social media users from a large university in the Southcentral United States. Methods: Participants completed an anonymous online survey…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Social Media, Social Support Groups, Intervention
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Clear, Sarah J.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Attachment theory and previous research on emotion regulation (ER) suggest that ER will be associated with adult attachment orientation, with the expectation of different associations of attachment avoidance, anxiety, and security with specific ER patterns. In addition, research has shown that the emotion under consideration and the context may…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Security (Psychology), Priming
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Pepanyan, Marine; Meacham, Sohyun; Logan, Stephanie – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to focus on the difference between perceptions of single and married international students. Four aspects are discussed to explain this issue: comfort level of international students in a host environment, their cultural representation, language competence/barrier and major challenges related to the host…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Alienation, Comparative Analysis, Marital Status
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Lane, Forrest C.; Martin, Georgianna L.; Henson, Robin K. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Institutional belonging has been connected in the literature to college student well-being, achievement, persistence, and retention. However, much of this literature uses a one-dimensional scale to examine this construct. The University Attachment Scale (UAS; France, Finney, & Swerdzewski, 2010) is a multidimensional instrument with purported…
Descriptors: College Students, Attachment Behavior, Group Membership, Group Unity
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Kang, Sunwoo; Youn, Gahyun; Stilwell, William E. – College Student Journal, 2014
Even though college students may be faced with developmental life tasks that might lead them to cognitive and emotional growth, little is known about how college students' life experiences are related to their cultural values. Understanding college students' life across culture requires both exploratory and confirmatory approaches to examine (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Experience, Cultural Influences
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Bennett, Susanne; Mohr, Jonathan; Deal, Kathleen Holtz; Hwang, Jeongha – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objective: This study focused on interrelationships among supervisor attachment, supervisory working alliance, and supervision-related affect, plus the moderating effect of a field instructor training. Method: The researchers employed a pretest-posttest follow-up design of 100 randomly assigned field instructors and 64 students in two…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Attachment Behavior, Work Environment, Training
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Olson, Chris G. – Christian Higher Education, 2011
This article presents some of the findings from a recent study on adult students (25 years and older) in Christian nontraditional programs and the implications these findings have for Christian higher education. One goal of the study was to develop a better understanding of adult spirituality. Utilizing a descriptive, cross-sectional survey…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Christianity, Higher Education, College Programs
Lane, Forrest C.; Henson, Robin K. – Online Submission, 2012
School attachment has received considerable attention in K-12 literature but it is relatively unexplored at the post-secondary level. The university attachment scale (UAS) is a new instrument designed to bridge this gap and previous research suggests transfer students score lower on group attachment than non-transfer students. However, these…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Transfer Students, Learner Engagement
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Mattanah, Jonathan F.; Lopez, Frederick G.; Govern, John M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
We report findings from a meta-analysis of 156 studies conducted between 1987 and 2009 (N = 32,969) that examined the relationship between self-reported parental attachment and multiple adjustment outcomes and developmental advances during the college years. Overall, a small-to-medium relationship was found between indicators of parental…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Effect Size, Developmental Tasks, Student Development
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Wood, Suzanne; Liossis, Poppy – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
The purpose of this study is to explore the variation in emotional closeness in the adult grandchild and grandparent relationship in relation to the occurrence of potentially stressful life events in childhood. A sample of university students (N = 119) completed a questionnaire measuring elements of intergenerational solidarity. Comparisons were…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Adults, Stress Variables, Children
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Safford, Scott M.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Pieracci, Antonia – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2007
We compared two common measures of parenting behavior, the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (CRPBI) and the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), evaluating their psychometric properties and predictive ability. One hundred sixty seven college students completed the CRPBI, PBI, and measures of depression and anxiety with 123…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Psychometrics, Depression (Psychology)
Guth, Christine M.; Chambliss, Catherine – 2001
Noting that few studies have assessed the long-term correlates of maternal employment during infancy, this study assessed the quality of college-age students' current relationships with their parents as a function of the employment status of their parents during the respondents' childhood. Participating in the research were 822 college students…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Attitudes, College Students, Comparative Analysis