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Li Deng; Chanam Lee; Sungmin Lee; Yizhen Ding; Yang Song; Galen Newman – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Previous research on college campus environments, student mental health, and COVID-19 has primarily focused on individual-level factors, with limited attention to the broader institutional characteristics. Objective and Methods: Using the national survey data from the American College Health Association, this study examines the influence of both…
Descriptors: Mental Health, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Teng Zhao; Shiji Chen; Yunlong Yu; Peiwen Zheng; Chengcheng Lin; Jun Yan – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2025
Global digital advancements provide postsecondary students with ample digital job opportunities. Thus, it is crucial to understand the psychological determinants that affect postsecondary students' choices of a digital career. Self-efficacy and interest are two widely used psychological determinants in the choice behavior of individuals. However,…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Technological Literacy, Student Interests
Dahir Abdi Ali; Ali Mohamud Hussein – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent of dropout students and identify the relationship between risk factors of dropout and the survival time of students. Design/methodology/approach: The Kaplan-Meier estimator (KM), also known as the product-limit technique, is a nonparametric model function that is commonly used in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, At Risk Students, Potential Dropouts
Fagan, Linda Okoye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the involvement and integration factors that contribute to the persistence of international students. Persistence and retention are central to improving higher education, and individual student persistence as well as the rates at which students persist have direct ramifications on the university…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Social Integration, Predictor Variables, Foreign Students
Steffen Wild; Olga Kunina-Habenicht – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Longitudinal research on students' interest in higher education showed that interest declines throughout the study program. While researchers reported numerous factors explaining interest on the student level, research on the relationship between the lecturer level and students' interest development is considered scarce. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Interests, Predictor Variables, College Faculty
Crisp, Gloria; Potter, Charlie; Taggart, Amanda – Research in Higher Education, 2022
This study models reverse transfer, lateral transfer, and college withdrawal behavior for a national sample of students who began college at bachelor's granting institutions. Descriptive data illustrate statistical differences in the characteristics, habitus, early college experiences and supports, and institutional characteristics of students who…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Withdrawal (Education), College Students, Student Characteristics
Wong, Lim Jin; Ling, Pick Soon; Ling, Tonny Heng Yew – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of green image on student loyalty and to present a conceptual framework aimed at retaining current students and attracting new ones in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: After review of prior studies using green image to predict customer loyalty in non-higher education industries and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment)
Ajayi, Kobi V.; Odonkor, Gloria; Panjwani, Sonya; Aremu, Oluwafemi; Garney, Whitney; McKyer, Lisako E. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
Students who are parents in higher education (HE) in the United States encounter competing demands and challenges while navigating multiple roles as parents, students, and employees. These challenges are multifaceted and can hinder their degree attainment. Using the socio-ecological model, we systematically summarised existing literature published…
Descriptors: College Students, Child Rearing, Parent Role, Student Role
Zilvinskis, John; Morgan, Demetri L.; Dugan, Brendan – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Following insights gleaned from a previous study the authors conducted, and to encourage greater transparency in the quantitative research design of higher education studies, the authors tested which institution-level variables found within the activism literature can be retained when modeling student activism behavior at multiple levels (Morgan,…
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Institutional Characteristics, Predictor Variables
Montanari, Simona; Vogel, Ron; Vasquez, Melinda – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
This study explores the demographic/background, academic, and environmental factors that predicted student retention after stopping out at a large Hispanic-serving institution in Southern California. The results show that (a) gender, (b) academic background, experience, readiness, and performance, and (c) personal and financial issues predicted…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics
Lindsay E. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Campus sexual assault (CSA) is a pervasive problem among US college students. Large scale, methodologically similar studies frequently find that between 20-25% of women and 6-7% of men are sexually victimized during their time at 4 year colleges and universities in the US (Cantor et al., 2015, 2019; Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000; Krebs et…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, College Students, College Environment, Victims of Crime
Preeya P. Mbekeani; Daniel Koretz – AERA Open, 2024
Validity studies of college admissions tests have found that, on average, students who are Black or Hispanic earn lower freshman grade-point averages (FGPAs) than predicted by these test scores. This differential prediction is used as a measure of bias. These studies, however, conflate student and school characteristics. The differential…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade Point Average, Racial Differences
Jong Eun Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although there has been a growing body of research on student-athlete retention in higher education, no studies to date have conducted a meta-analysis for investigating predictors of student-athlete retention and attrition. Moreover, the results of existing literature indicate that the factors impacting collegiate athletes' retention are mixed.…
Descriptors: Student Athletes, School Holding Power, Student Attrition, Predictor Variables
Kamal Basha, Norazlyn; Sweeney, Jillian C.; Soutar, Geoffrey Norman – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: In recent times, many universities have been pressured to become heavily involved in university branding. The purpose of this paper is to investigate students' perceptions of different international universities (brands) in terms of important university attributes, including the country in which the university's main campus is located and…
Descriptors: College Students, Preferences, International Schools, Universities
Sucan, Serdar – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the students' level of organizational identification, level of hope and perceived stress. The study group consisted of 280 students studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Erciyes University in 2017-2018 academic year. When we look at the students' demographic information; 63.6%…
Descriptors: Correlation, Stress Variables, Athletics, Identification