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Kural, Ayse I.; Özyurt, Berrin – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Research has demonstrated consistently that personality and perceived stress, independently, are essential factors for university adjustment among university freshmen; however, little is known about the associations between personality, perceived stress, and adjustment together. Our primary goal was to explore the predictive utility of perceived…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Predictor Variables
Amine Oudghiri – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the association of four independent variables (i.e., sex, class standing, GPA, and living status) with the academic integration, social integration, and institutional commitment (the dependent variables) of international students attending seven public regional universities in West Virginia. A researcher-developed, Likert-type…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Foreign Students, College Students, Social Integration
Franz Carrillo-Higueras; T. R. Walton – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Homesick disposition, an individual's expectation about becoming homesick in the future, has been identified as an important predictor of homesickness. Homesick disposition can be detected and measured even before the separation from home has taken place, making it particularly relevant to understanding feelings and perceptions of rural school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Adjustment, Psychological Patterns
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
Herrick, Samantha J.; Lu, Weili; Bullock, Deanna – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
This study examined the relationship between acceptance of disability, perceived stigma of students on a college campus and adaptation to college for students with disabilities. One hundred forty-five surveys were collected from student participants via the disability support services offices at sixteen colleges or universities in the northeast…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Adjustment, Predictor Variables, Social Bias
Chia S. Her – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Asian Americans are generally perceived to be disproportionately enrolled in four-year postsecondary education institutions despite evidence of Asian Americans being concentrated at both two-year and four-year postsecondary education institutions. This perception of Asian Americans has contributed to limited attention to Asian Americans'…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Asian Americans, Predictor Variables, College Attendance
Nawal Mohamad; Kim-Louise Rousseau; Fatimah Dowlut; Milton Gering; Kevin G. F. Thomas – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: ADHD symptoms are highly prevalent among university students. These symptoms, particularly the inattentive cluster, predispose students to poorer academic performance and worse academic adjustment. Moreover, ADHD symptoms are often comorbid with other common mental disorders; this comorbidity also leads to poor outcomes. South African…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Success
Nurius, Paula S.; Sefidgar, Yasaman S.; Kuehn, Kevin S.; Jung, Jake; Zhang, Han; Figueira, Olivia; Riskin, Eve A.; Dey, Anind K.; Mankoff, Jennifer C. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: This study addresses mental health concerns among university students, examining cumulative stress exposure as well as resilience resources. Participants: Participants were 253 first- and second-year undergraduate students (age = 18.76; 49.80% male, 69% students of color) enrolled at a large western US university. Methods: Data were…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Stress Variables, Undergraduate Students, Case Studies
McKenna M. Halverson; Sara E. Lowmaster – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Peer mentors play a crucial role in campus-based living and support programs that assist autistic students in their transition to U.S. colleges. However, limited research has examined the characteristics of potential peer mentors and incentives that may be necessary to staff such programs. The present study evaluated the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Predictor Variables, Intention
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
Johns, Sarah K.; Valiente, Carlos; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Hernández, Maciel M.; Southworth, Jody; Berger, Rebecca H.; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Silva, Kassondra M.; Pina, Armando A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
The goal of the study was to examine whether target children's temperamental negative emotional expressivity (NEE) and effortful control in the fall of kindergarten predicted academic adjustment in the spring and whether a classmate's NEE and effortful control moderated these relations. Target children's NEE and effortful control were measured in…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Emotional Response, Self Control, Kindergarten
Ma, Kyunghee – College Student Journal, 2021
This study explored the relationship between acculturation stress and depression among first-year Chinese and Indian international graduate students enrolled at a large Southeast university in the U.S. It examined the role that social support plays in that relationship and identified changes in depression levels over one academic year. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Acculturation, Stress Variables
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
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
Ng, Wai Shan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Student persistence is a popular topic with numerous published literature. However, few research studies in the field of higher education administration have focused on the comparison between freshmen and undergraduate transfer students about their persistence. The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the persistence factors between…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students