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Direct linkReysen, Rebekah H.; Degges-White, Suzanne; Reysen, Matthew B. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among academic entitlement, life satisfaction, and academic performance as measured by cumulative grade point average. When comparing academically at-risk versus non-at-risk college students, academically at-risk students scored significantly lower on satisfaction with life than their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Life Satisfaction
Jones, Emily J.; Schreier, Hannah M. C. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To examine prospective associations between physical and mental self-rated health (SRH), college generation status and college adjustment among first-year college students. Participants and methods: Eighty-seven first-year college students (41 first-generation college students) reported their SRH when starting college, and then,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Physical Health
Jiang, Su; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Math and science motivational beliefs are essential in understanding students' science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) achievement and choices in high school and college. Drawing on the Eccles' expectancy-value theory and Arnett's emerging adulthood framework, this study examined the relations among high school students' motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Generational Differences
Luciano, David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the relationship between Acculturation Strategy and Social Supports on Acculturative Stress and Academic Performance Among Hispanic/Latino/a College students. The sample of approximately 522 students was recruited at the City College of The City University of New York. Various statistical methods, including one way ANOVAS,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Hispanic American Students, Social Support Groups, Stress Variables
Somoza, Yan Manuel, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research concerning Latinos and their educational attainment has posited several reasons for Latino underrepresentation and underachievement. This study sought to counter such deficiency models and examine certain predictors of academic success among college Latinos. Specifically, this study predicted a negative correlation between generational…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Educational Attainment, Acculturation, Disproportionate Representation
Schlinsog, Jimmie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored the relationship between engagement in educationally purposeful activities during the first year of college and academic achievement, persistence, and graduation. The study focused on the impacts of engagement on student outcomes related to academic achievement, persistence, and graduation at a comprehensive university located…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, High School Students, Ethnicity, Grade Point Average
Hernandez, Eliza Aguirre – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this dissertation research was to analyze a nationally representative dataset of first-year beginning students to examine the factors that affect Mexican-origin Latinos undergraduate students' persistence and degree attainment outcomes. Several theoretical perspectives are used in this research in order to address the complex…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Institutional Characteristics, Social Capital, Human Capital
