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Direct linkParker, Philip D.; Thoemmes, Felix; Duineveld, Jasper J.; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Existing gap-year research indicates a number of benefits of a gap-year at the end of school and before university enrollment. Life span theory of control, however, suggests that direct goal investment, rather than delay, at developmental transitions is associated with more adaptive outcomes. Comparing these perspectives, the authors undertook 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stopouts, Psychological Patterns, Educational Attainment
Peer reviewedLiljander, Juha-Pekka; Maatta, Pentti – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1994
How students' cultural backgrounds and the variation of these backgrounds in different educational units affect the phenomenon of dropout and change of career plans was studied with 39,831 Finnish college students from 1985-90. Students' tendency to drop out is connected to some degree to sociocultural background. (SLD)
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Students, Cultural Background, Dropouts
Download full textMoore, Erja – 2001
More adults are attending college in Finland, so that now approximately one-third of university students, including one-fourth of undergraduates are aged 30 years or over. A study using national data and adult history accounts found these three reasons connected with the change of the age structure in universities: studying for a second university…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, College Students, Developed Nations
