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Özhan, Mehmet Bugra; Boyaci, Mehmet – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2022
Introduction: Burnout emerges as a common problem during the university period when social competition and expectations from the individual increase, and daily life becomes increasingly complicated due to augmenting stress factors. The aim of this study was to examine whether the school burnout of university students can be predicted significantly…
Descriptors: Burnout, Student Adjustment, College Students, Predictor Variables
Zorach, Inbar Aharoni; Lipka, Orly – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
The current study examined the adjustment to higher education among students with mental health disorders, focusing on adjustment to post-secondary education, emotional and metacognitive variables. The participants were 123 students who had already completed at least one year at an institution of higher education: 63 students who self-identified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Mental Disorders, Life Satisfaction
Apriceno, MaryBeth; Levy, Sheri R.; London, Bonita – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
The demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates has increased significantly over the last decade. Because of the insufficient number of STEM graduates, this demand has not been met, resulting in a significant shortage of STEM workers in the US (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012). The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Student Adjustment, Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy
Mélanie Joly; Julia Petrovic; Jessica Mettler; Nancy L. Heath – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The present study explored differences in four domains of university adjustment (i.e. personal-emotional, social, academic, and institutional attachment) among students with and without a history of engaging in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and examined the independent influence of NSSI on university adjustment. Participants and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stress Variables, Self Destructive Behavior, Student Adjustment
Gebregergis, Werede Tareke; Mehari, Desbele Tekie; Gebretinsae, Dawit Yikealo; Tesfamariam, Aster Habte – Journal of International Students, 2020
Personal and situational factors contribute to international students' sociocultural adjustment in a host society. Thus this study attempts to determine the roles of self-efficacy, self-esteem, and previous travel experience on sociocultural adjustment. The sample for this study constituted 328 undergraduate and postgraduate international…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy, Self Esteem, Prior Learning
Laurel Lucy Mo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative predictive correlation study was to address the lack of research regarding the impacts of persistence factors on the educational outcomes of Hispanic college students. The study was a predictive correlation design with a criterion variable of grade point average (GPA). Predictor variables were the persistence…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Persistence, Hispanic American Students, Community College Students
Vettori, Giulia; Vezzani, Claudio; Pinto, Giuliana; Bigozzi, Lucia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This study focused on the transition from upper-secondary school to university. Specifically, it examined whether prior academic achievements and conceptions of learning at the time of completion of upper-secondary school predicted short- and long-term university success (grades at the bachelor's and master's levels). A total of 171 psychology…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), High School Students
Conley, Colleen S.; Huguenel, Brynn M.; Shapiro, Jenna B.; Kirsch, Alexandra C. – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Psychological well-being and distress are critical components of college adjustment that are intricately entwined with student retention and success during and after college. This 5-wave longitudinal study used growth mixture modeling to explore heterogeneous trajectories of psychological well-being (self-esteem) and distress (depression, anxiety,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Students, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
Yingying Pan; Xiaoli Zheng – Educational Psychology, 2024
Online education transforms many aspects of teaching and learning in higher education. International students studying abroad already face considerable stress and negative emotions, and the transition to online learning can further intensify their learning anxiety. This study systematically investigated the factors associated with international…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Anxiety, Learning Readiness, Student Attitudes
Willems, Jonas; van Daal, Tine; van Petegem, Peter; Coertjens, Liesje; Donche, Vincent – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
This study tests an integrative model, which delineates how students' academic motivation, academic self-efficacy and learning strategies (processing strategies and regulation strategies) at the end of secondary education impact academic adjustment in the first semester of the first year of higher education (FYHE) and subsequent academic…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, College Freshmen
Ann Marie Wilkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Students with disabilities are faced with overwhelming challenges as they transition from high school to postsecondary education, careers, and independent living. Legislation has mandated that schools provide services for students with disabilities to prepare them for these transitions into adult life (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, High School Students
Pandya, Samta P. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
This article reports a study on the impact of spiritual training lessons as compared to creative arts lessons with a cohort of Indian and Sri Lankan doctoral students immigrated to the US. The aim was to examine programme effectiveness in mitigating their acculturative stress, promoting self-efficacy, and wellbeing. Spiritual training lessons were…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Creative Activities, Art Education, Lifelong Learning
Kahn, Marissa; Solomon, Phyllis; Treglia, Dan – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2019
A correlational design was employed to determine how risk and protective factors relate to first-year college adjustment. In total, 348 students completed an online survey about their experience adjusting to college. Risk factors (i.e., psychiatric medication, fearful-avoidant attachment, and anxious-preoccupied attachment) negatively impacted…
Descriptors: Risk, Predictor Variables, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
Helsabeck, Nathan P.; Logan, Jessica A. R.; Justice, Laura M.; Purtell, Kelly M.; Lin, Tzu-Jung – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Using a sample of 568 students from 61 kindergarten classrooms whose primary caregivers completed a questionnaire describing their child's early childhood education and care (ECEC) by year from birth to pre-kindergarten, we identified seven pathways characterizing children's ECEC experiences using a latent class analysis. Once…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Khairina; Roslan, Samsilah; Ahmad, Noorlila; Zaremohzzabieh, Zeinab; Arsad, Nurazidawati Mohamad – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The benefits of internationalization in higher education are indisputable. However, students studying abroad may face difficulties such as adjustment issues since they are away from home and go through a new stage in their lives. Seeing that an essential predictor of psychological adjustment is resilience, the current study aims to assess the role…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Students, Graduate Students