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Adjustment to College in Nonresidential First-Year Students: The Roles of Stress, Family, and Coping
Direct linkGefen, Dalia R.; Fish, Marian C. – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
This study explored factors related to college adjustment in nonresidential first-year students. It was hypothesized that stress, family functioning, and coping strategies would predict academic, personal-emotional, and social adjustment in addition to institutional attachment. The sample comprised 167 first-year college students (ages 18-23)…
Descriptors: Coping, Stress Variables, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
Peer reviewedCannici, James P.; Poulton, James – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience, 1990
To reduce student depression and its academic consequences, a preventive training program for freshmen provided one group (n=85) with a semester-long course in personal competencies (affect management, self-control, social skills, and problem solving), and one group (n=86) with an academic skills course. Both groups were equally effective.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Development, College Freshmen, Depression (Psychology)
