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Peer reviewedAlfert, Elizabeth; Suczek, Robert F. – Journal of Higher Education, 1971
Youth is changing, especially in social outlook and attitudes and interpersonal style. (Editor)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Environment, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textChickering, Arthur W. – 1971
The Project on Student Development in Small Colleges is a 5-year research and action program which has studied institutional characteristics, student characteristics, attrition, and student development in 13 small colleges across the country. The results of this study on personality development indicated that personality development during college…
Descriptors: College Environment, Higher Education, Institutional Environment, Personality Change
Peer reviewedChickering, Arthur W.; McCormick, John – Research in Higher Education, 1973
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Emotional Experience, Higher Education
Whiteley, John M.; Yokota, Norma – 1988
The study reviews the impact of the freshman year and 4 years of undergraduate study on the formation of character and its progression from late adolescence to young adulthood. Much of the empirical data used is drawn from the Sierra Project, a study originating in the 1970s that addressed traditional obstacles in higher education in meeting its…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, College Students, Curriculum
Chickering, Arthur W.; McCormick, John – 1970
Part I of this report describes results of studies concerning "net change" of personality from analyses pooling students from all the 13 colleges participating in the Project on Student Development and from analyses pooling all students retested within each college. The findings indicated that: (1) changes occurred in most of the areas measured by…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Environment, College Students, Higher Education
Trent, James W. – 1965
The nature and purpose of US colleges is explored within the framework of student development and its relationship to social change. Data were gathered during a 5-year study on the educational, vocational and personality development of 10,000 graduating high school seniors. A strong relationship was found between college entrance, level of ability…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Choice, College Environment, Guidance
Jorgensen, Jerry D.; Speidel, Roger – 1994
A study examines qualitatively the extent to which college students indicate that cocurricular theater activities impact on psychodynamic development in J. Katz's five areas--separation anxiety, peer influence, adult role models, personality development, and occupational choice. Subjects, 15 male and 15 female students involved in the theater…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Environment, Higher Education, Peer Influence
Peer reviewedProtinsky, Howard; Gilkey, Joyce Katherine – Adolescence, 1996
Assessed a random sample of 102 female students from a small private college concerning levels of individuation, intimacy, intimidation, parental triangulation, and personal authority. These concepts formed the construct of Personal Authority and were tested regarding their relationship to self-esteem, physical health, and college adjustment.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Environment, College Students, Females
