Download or read book Social Support Psychological Coping Resources Interpersonal Orientation and Living Environment as Predictors of Adjustment in First year Undergraduates written by Felix Savino and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Occurrence of Social Support Among Students Living in Residence Halls written by Dann Grindeman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of social support within different living groups. It also determined if there were a combination of variables that contribute to social support. The independent variables included interpersonal orientation, sense of identity, adjustment to college, grade point average, gender of subject, and participation in extracurricular activities. The sample consisted of freshmen who lived in coeducational halls, single sex halls and in off-campus housing. These subjects completed the inventory of Social Support Behavior, the Erwin Identity Scale, the College Freshmen Adjustment Scale and the Interpersonal Orientation Scale. Of the 515 surveys distributed, 305 (50%) were returned. One-way analysis of variance compared the levels of social support in the three different living groups. Correlation coefficients were used to determine if significant relationships existed between social support and the independent variables. Multiple regression was used to determine which variables were the best predictors of social support. Results indicated a significant difference in the level of social support experienced by the living groups. Significant relationships existed between social support and the variables of interpersonal orientation and adjustment to college. The regression equation indicated that these two variables were also the best predictors of social support. A negative correlation existed between social support and grade point average. Women in single sex residence halls experienced the greatest degree of social support. Interpersonal orientation and adjustment to college were found to be key variables that influence the level of social support within a residence hall setting. The inverse relationship between grades and social support suggested the importance of peer relationships for the student experiencing academic difficulty.

Download or read book Index to American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book College Student Psychological Adjustment written by Jonathan F. Mattanah and published by Momentum Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Student Psychological Adjustment provides the reader an in-depth understanding of students’ relationship experiences in college and how those experiences shape their adjustment to college. Each chapter examines research on one key relationship in a student’s life to better understand how those relationships are re-worked during the college years and what factors help determine adaptive relational outcomes. Along the way, a number of controversial topics are considered from a scholarly perspective, including the effects of helicopter parenting on students’ development in college, the prevalence and problematic nature of the hook-up culture on college campuses today, and policies related to whether students should be randomly assigned to live with their first-year roommates or be allowed to choose their roommates, based on a matching system. Aimed at advanced students and scholars in the fields of psychology, human development, and higher education, readers of this book will gain a fresh perspective on the relationship development of college students and possible avenues for intervention to help students enhance their relationships skills and prevent development of mental health difficulties.

Download or read book Social Support Stress and Cognitive Coping Strategies as Predictors of Anxiety and Depression During the Transition to University written by Anne-Elise O'Regan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Support Theory Research and Applications written by I.G. Sarason and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor." Traditional Danish Proverb This bit of Danish folk wisdom expresses an idea underlying much of the current thinking about social support. While the clinical literature has for a long time recognized the deleterious effects of unwholesome social relationships, only more recently has the focus broadened to include the positive side of social interaction, those interpersonal ties that are desired, rewarding, and protective. This book contains theoretical and research contributions by a group of scholars who are charting this side of the social spectrum. Evidence is increasing that maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving occur disproportionately among people with few social supports. Rather than sapping self-reliance, strong ties with others particularly family members seem to encourage it. Reliance on others and self-reliance are not only compatible but complementary to one another. While the mechanism by which an intimate relationship is protective has yet to be worked out, the following factors seem to be involved: intimacy, social integration through shared concerns, reassurance of worth, the opportunity to be nurtured by others, a sense of reliable alliance, and guidance. The major advance that is taking place in the literature on social support is that reliance is being -placed less on anecdotal and clinical evidence and more on empirical inquiry. The chapters of this book reflect this important development and identify the frontiers that are currently being explored.

Download or read book Psychosocial Predictors of Adjustment Among First Year College of Education Students written by Samuel O. Salami and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of psychological and social factors to the prediction of adjustment to college. A total of 250 first year students from colleges of education in Kwara State, Nigeria, completed measures of self-esteem, emotional intelligence, stress, social support and adjustment. Regression analyses revealed that all the independent variables predicted adjustments. Social support interacted with stress to predict adjustment. Implications for the counselors, parents and college authorities in enhancing students' adjustment to college were discussed. Further, the findings implicated the need for college authorities to integrate activities designed to improve students' adjustment into college co-curricular activities meant for youth development. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.).

Download or read book Personality and Social Network Variables as Predictors of Adjustment written by Madeline Becker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The transition to college freshman year is probably the most difficult phase of adjustment during college life. Many freshmen experience feelings of loneliness and isolation and interpersonal conflicts while facing new social and academic challenges. Twenty percent of students begin having difficulty within the first six weeks of school and drop out early in their first year (Mallinckrodt & Sedlacek, 1987). Most students leave school due to stress associated with social and personal issues (Bradburn, 2003). As the number of students attending college has increased, the types of support needed have changed. Consequently, current students require different kinds of social and personal support than was previously thought. This longitudinal study expands on previous research by considering social support and personality variables as predictors of two types of college adjustment (student-reported adjustment and adjustment as measured by first semester GPA), and is the first to look at three time periods during the first semester freshman year. Questionnaires regarding social support, personality and adjustment were completed by 211 first-semester freshman. Repeated-measures ANOVA found that students tended to be lonelier during the first two weeks of the semester, but there were no differences in the size of, or satisfaction with, social networks; or in mean levels of personality across time. No gender differences or interactions of gender and time were identified. Multiple regression analyses found that depression, self-worth and satisfaction with students' social network predicted student-reported adjustment to college. Students with lower levels of depression, higher self-worth and high satisfaction with social networks reported better overall adjustment to college. In contrast, only extraversion predicted GPA. Students with high extraversion received lower GPA first semester freshman year. This study extends existing research by identifying that the variables predicting student-reported adjustment are not identical to those predicting first semester GPA. Additionally, data support the novel finding that students' satisfaction with their social network late in the semester was associated with student-reported adjustment to college. This information will direct educators towards developing time-specific intervention programs that target students' individual needs, and ultimately generate better outcomes such as greater satisfaction with university life and higher retention rates.

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Support and Nature Coping Strategies for First Generation College Students written by Jhovany Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "College can challenge young adults academically, personally, and socially. For first generation college students, the challenges presented can be significantly greater due to insufficient social support, resources, and adjustment to a new environment. First generation college students struggle considerably more than their peers resulting in taking notably longer to complete a bachelor's degree or dropping out of school altogether (Saenz, Hurtado, Barrera, Wolf, & Yeung, 2007). To assist this student population in college, this project proposes a model that will provide social support and a coping strategy - experiences with nature. The literature reviewed addresses the risk factors for first generation students, how nature can be used to improve wellness, and gestalt therapy. This project proposes a holistic model that includes participation in gestalt-oriented group counseling and engaging in experiences with nature to help improve the academic performance and wellness of first generation students."--Abstract, p. 1.

Download or read book Social Aspects of Coping written by Mariana C. Belvedere and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy written by Kemal Gürüz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the First Edition: "Higher education has exploded globally, and Gürüz's excellent, timely study is as useful a guidebook as one will find to this new (even revolutionary) world. . . [A] major contribution and starting point for an important conversation." Choice "Gürüz's book is a powerful and remarkably comprehensive work dealing with a wide array of interconnected topics and complex data relating to globalization and international student mobility. . . . Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy is a wonderful read on many levels and clearly represents decades of careful data analysis and synthesis." International Review of Education Students and scholars leaving their homes in search of education and knowledge is not a new phenomenon. An indispensable resource for understanding the international mobility of students, this book reveals how the global mobility of such students, scholars, programs, and institutions of higher education have evolved over time. Kemal Gürüz explores the contributions that the international mobility of students has made to civilization, scientific, and technological progress, and the ways in which it is occurring in today's global economy. The second edition of this widely praise study is completely revised and updated, tracing international mobility in higher education through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Kemal Gürüz is Former President of the Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Turkey and retired Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University. In 2006, he was the first recipient of the Chancellor John W. Ryan Fellowship in International Education at the State University of New York.

Download or read book Does Being Rural Matter written by Allison L. Bitz and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: One out of every three first-year college students will not return for a second year of college (Postsecondary Education Opportunity, 2010). Due to a variety of factors, minority students are at an even higher risk of dropping out of college. Rural youth, comprising approximately 22% of the nation's total youth, form a significant minority population; yet the rural student experience in college has not yet been widely considered in research. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore college adjustment and its predictors among first-year students, with an emphasis on the role of rurality in college adjustment. Social self-efficacy, social support, social investment at college, psychological help-seeking attitudes, and well-being were explored as potential predictors of adjustment. Participants were 240 first-year students at a large Midwestern university, who completed a questionnaire. Results indicated that rural and urban students did not report significant differences in the extent of their adjustment to college; yet, the predictors of adjustment were slightly different between groups (i.e., rural and urban students may have different paths to adjustment at college). Social support was an indirect and direct predictor of adjustment for rural students, but only operated as an indirect predictor of adjustment for urban students. Thus it may be that the social support perceived by rural students is somehow qualitatively different than support perceived by urban students, which may provide evidence for the idea of divergent rural/urban cultures. Bolstering this claim is the finding that rural students reported less positive help-seeking attitudes and higher senses of well-being than did urban students. Also of note is that well-being was found to mediate the relationship between social self-efficacy and adjustment, and between social support and adjustment, across groups. Based on the results of this study, various theoretical and practical applications, including potential interventions for first-year college students, are considered and discussed.

Download or read book Predictors of Undergraduates Psychological Well being written by Abbie Butler and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Social Determinants of Mental Health written by Michael T. Compton and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Determinants of Mental Health aims to fill the gap that exists in the psychiatric, scholarly, and policy-related literature on the social determinants of mental health: those factors stemming from where we learn, play, live, work, and age that impact our overall mental health and well-being. The editors and an impressive roster of chapter authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds provide detailed information on topics such as discrimination and social exclusion; adverse early life experiences; poor education; unemployment, underemployment, and job insecurity; income inequality, poverty, and neighborhood deprivation; food insecurity; poor housing quality and housing instability; adverse features of the built environment; and poor access to mental health care. This thought-provoking book offers many beneficial features for clinicians and public health professionals: Clinical vignettes are included, designed to make the content accessible to readers who are primarily clinicians and also to demonstrate the practical, individual-level applicability of the subject matter for those who typically work at the public health, population, and/or policy level. Policy implications are discussed throughout, designed to make the content accessible to readers who work primarily at the public health or population level and also to demonstrate the policy relevance of the subject matter for those who typically work at the clinical level. All chapters include five to six key points that focus on the most important content, helping to both prepare the reader with a brief overview of the chapter's main points and reinforce the "take-away" messages afterward. In addition to the main body of the book, which focuses on selected individual social determinants of mental health, the volume includes an in-depth overview that summarizes the editors' and their colleagues' conceptualization, as well as a final chapter coauthored by Dr. David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, that serves as a "Call to Action," offering specific actions that can be taken by both clinicians and policymakers to address the social determinants of mental health. The editors have succeeded in the difficult task of balancing the individual/clinical/patient perspective and the population/public health/community point of view, while underscoring the need for both groups to work in a unified way to address the inequities in twenty-first century America. The Social Determinants of Mental Health gives readers the tools to understand and act to improve mental health and reduce risk for mental illnesses for individuals and communities. Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) will also benefit from this book, as the MCAT in 2015 will test applicants' knowledge of social determinants of health. The social determinants of mental health are not distinct from the social determinants of physical health, although they deserve special emphasis given the prevalence and burden of poor mental health.