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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Academic adjustment"”.
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Intrapersonal Variables Associated With Academic Adjustment In College Students
<p>In this study, academic adjustment in college students was examined, which refers to students' success in coping with the educational demands of the college experience. With college attendance on the rise, it is important to explain the variance in successful academic adjustment. Individual …
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Searching for Success: Predictors of Academic Adjustment of International Students
… as key factors associated with the overall adjustment of international students (Mori, 2000; Pedersen, 1991; Sandhu, 1995, Sandhu & Asrabadi, 1998). Of particular significance for international students are the challenges stemming from pedagogical differences between foreign and U.S. …
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Ethnic Identity, Self-Efficacy, Academic Adjustment, and Anxiety Symptoms in Latinx Undergraduates
… between ethnic identity, self-efficacy, academic adjustment, and anxiety symptoms in Latinx undergraduates. Methods: Sample consisted of 155 participants (Mage = 20.4, SD = 1.67; 72.7% female). Ethical approval was granted by Florida State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) …
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Studying in the United States: Chinese Graduate Students' Experiences of Academic Adjustment
… without being fully aware of the immense adjustment hurdles they must overcome to be academically successful in the new educational system. A number of issues related to academic adjustment, such as language barriers, differences between educational systems and philosophical foundations, …
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Achievement goals, motivational self-regulation and academic adjustment among elite Chinese high school students
The current study investigated the mediating role of motivational self-regulation (MSR) strategies (i.e., mastery self-talk, performance/extrinsic self-talk, performance/relative ability self-talk, interest enhancement, relevance enhancement, efficacy enhancement) in the relationships between …
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Valuing Cultural Diversity: the academic adjustment experiences of undergraduate Chinese international Business students at Victoria University
… explores, from the students' perspective, the academic adjustment experiences of undergraduate international Business students from Chinese Confucian heritage cultural backgrounds at Victoria University, Australia. A qualitative methodology, using principles of grounded theory, was used for the …
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The Relationship between Social Support, Social Adjustment, Academic Adjustment, and Academic Performance Among College Students in Tanzania
… the relationship between social support, social adjustment, academic adjustment and academic performance among college students in Tanzania. The sample of this study comprised 405 students, and 12 staff from the College of Business Education and the Institute of Finance Management in Dar es …
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Mothers’ perceptions of the climate of their children’s schools: Covariations with children’s academic adjustment in families of Mexican origin
… schools may play a role in their children’s academic adjustment, research examining this idea has been sparse. Every 2 years beginning when their children were in 5th grade until they were in 11th grade, Mexican-origin mothers (N = 674) reported on their perceptions of the climate of their …
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The relationship between teacher-based discrimination, academic adjustment, psychological well-being, and student-teacher relationship quality among African American adolescents
… perceived racial and gender discrimination, academic adjustment, psychological well-being, and student-teacher relationship quality. Additionally, the study explored adolescents’ beliefs about personality as a moderator between perceived discrimination and adjustment. In line with hypotheses, …
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Transactions between adolescents' sense of responsibility and disclosure to parents in the United States and China: implications for academic adjustment
… to the role of such transactions in children’s academic adjustment. Four times over the seventh and eighth grades, 825 adolescents (mean age = 12.73 years) in the United States and China reported on their sense of responsibility to parents and their spontaneous disclosure of everyday activities …
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The Role of Selected Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Academic Preparation of Graduate Students From Developing Countries
… and research directors in the amount of academic adjustment and special effort provided to students, and that (b) there is no correlation between the amount of academic adjustment and special effort that faculty provide as teachers, advisors and research directors and the number of …
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Multiple Predictors of College Adjustment and Academic Performance for Undergraduates in Their First Semester
College success, as defined by adjustment to college and academic performance, is a multidetermined with a number of contributing influences, including academic factors, personality variables, family characteristics, and environmental factors. This study attempted to provide an organizing model of …
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College Student Adjustment: Examination Of Personal And Environmental Characteristics
… study used a multi-dimensional model of college adjustment to examine the relationships between multiple layers of personal influences and college adjustment (academic, social, personal/emotional, attachment to the institution, and overall adjustment) among emerging adults in a large urban …
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A study to identify and compare the personal, social and academic adjustment problems experienced by minority black and caucasian graduate students enrolled at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a predominantly white institution, and Virginia State College, a predominantly black institution
… (1) to identify the major personal, social and academic adjustment problems experienced by minority graduate students at two contrasting institutions and (2) to compare the identified major adjustment problems of such students. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is a …
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College Student Adaptability and Greek Membership: A Single Institution Case Study
… Greek students by gender in five areas: Overall adjustment, academic adjustment, personal-emotional adjustment, social adjustment, and attachment to the institution. The study, conducted in the spring of 2006 at the University of North Texas had 80 respondents. The Student Adaptability to College …
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Children's Relationships With Peers and Teachers: Assessment, Linkages Between Relationship Systems, and Associations With School Adjustment
… these relationships were associated with school adjustment. First, the psychometric properties of a peer nominations and ratings measure of the teacher-child relationship (PNR-TC; Birch, 1997) were evaluated, and the measure demonstrated satisfactory test-retest reliability, convergent validity, …
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Cultural Mistrust, Self -Efficacy, and Outcome Expectations as Predictors of Academic and Psychosocial Adjustment for African -American College Students at Predominantly White Universities
Predictors of academic and psychosocial adjustment for African American students attending a predominantly White university were investigated in this study. Two-hundred and nine African American students attending a large, predominantly White, state university in the Midwest were surveyed. Cultural …
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Exploring the effects of coping behaviors on adjustment during a semester for lesbian, gay and bisexual college students
… study investigated predictors of coping and adjustment for lesbian, gay and bisexual college students. Data on all variables was collected across four time points in the semester. Stress, as measured by type of stress, whether the stress was related to being gay and the overall level of …
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Portrait of a Stereotype: Asian Americans' Experiences With the Model Minority Stereotype During Adolescence
… youths’ perceptions of the MMS with positive academic and psychological outcomes. The current study extends these findings with a longitudinal follow-up on 152 Asian American adolescents’ MMS experiences. Results showed that MMS links with academic adjustment replicated at T2, while links with …
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Subjective Culture, Perceived Social Support, and Adaptive Coping: A Multi-Ethnic Study of the Transition to College
… and 71 Latinos/as) attending a primarily White academic institution were analyzed to investigate the combined effects of cultural collectivism-individualism, acculturation, and perceived social support on psychological and academic adjustment. Psychometric analyses revealed that the measures …
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