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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Adult college students"”.
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Attachment and Bonding: Correlations between Relationship and Anxiety among Adult College Students
… study investigated the relationships between adult attachment style, memories of early bonding experiences, and five different types of anxiety. The participants were 201 undergraduate psychology students, whose attachment styles, early bonding memories, and tendency toward the five anxiety …
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Video Game Addiction And Motivation In Emerging Adults: A Person-Centered Approach
… play (PVGP) and motivation for play in emerging adult college students. A sample of 700 undergraduate students were recruited to participate in an online survey. A person-centered approach was utilized to examine risk for PVGP, and found three clusters of individuals representing a High …
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The Relationship of Early Class Start Times on Sleepiness and Driving Behaviors in an Emerging Adult Population
… limit the amount of sleep teenage high school students acquire during the week and have been related to increased crash risk. The current study extends this finding to teenage and emerging adult college students. The author examined the link between sleepiness and teenage driving behaviors, …
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Adopted college students' family adoption communication processes: A mixed methods study
… this mixed methods study were to examine adopted college students' adoption-related experiences, family communication processes, topic avoidance, and reasons for topic avoidance. The study utilized qualitative findings from a previous study to inform the creation of a new web-based survey …
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The Relationship Between Sense of Coherence, Readiness to Change, and Alcohol Use in Emerging Adults
… is among individuals aged 18-25, the emerging adult population (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Drinking patterns at this age can often extend into habitual behaviors which cause lasting impacts on adult life. Sense of Coherence (SOC) helps an individual look at life in a positive …
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Type I diabetes and insulin omission : an in-depth look
… designed to answer two questions. Why do young adult college students with type I diabetes omit insulin? and what factors facilitate and act as barriers to open communication regarding insulin omission in the patient-provider interaction. A total 13 (10 females, 3 males) college students …
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The Impact of Personalized Feedback on Marijuana Use: Examining a Brief Intervention Delivered via the Internet
… highly accessible way to reach a large number of adults who are ambivalent about changing their marijuana use, or are concerned about seeking in-person counseling for their use. The goal of this online study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief web-based feedback intervention for adult …
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Protective Factors For Emerging Adults With Subclinical Adhd
… <p>PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR EMERGING ADULTS WITH SUBCLINICAL ADHD</p> <p>by</p> <p>OLIVIA A. McGARRAGLE</p> <p>May 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Stephen Hillman</p> <p>Major: Educational Psychology</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>This study investigated the understudied and …
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Attachment Self-report Questionnaires : Refining the Method
… from such situations. Self-report measures of adult attachment have largely ignored the context-specific requirement of activating the attachment behavioral system focusing instead on the belief that over time attachment representations are stable and enduring styles of relating …
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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Positive Illusory Bias, and the Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health
… social impairment, and academic success in young adults with and without ADHD. Methods: The first paper was a scoping review examining conceptual definitions and measurement methodology of positive illusory bias across studies of children and adolescents with ADHD. It followed the Preferred …
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Slim chance : adult students' access to university-administered merit-based undergraduate scholarships
… criteria that funnel these awards towards some students and away from others. This thesis uses findings from a case study to examine whether adult students (undergraduates aged 25 year and older) have equal access to undergraduate scholarships at one Canadian university. Framed by understanding …
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Elucidating sexual and reproductive health knowledge and interpersonal correlates and predictors of contraceptive use behaviors among young adults 18-24
Background: Young adults ages 18-24 are disproportionally affected by unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and infections (STD/I). The best protection against both pregnancy and STD/Is is dual contraceptive use: the concurrent use of a highly effective contraceptive method and a …
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Becoming critical beings: a thematic study exploring the development, learning and teaching of a group of non traditional adult learners
… and with a specific non traditional group of adult learners. Barnett (1997) goes further and suggests that these features, which he refers to collectively as the practice of critical being, are an essential requirement for those engaging in higher education. He does not give specifics on how …
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The adult student decline: a study of the longterm impact of the Rowan University strategic plan
<p>Adult students are considerably different as compared to the more traditional college-aged student. Along with school work adult students must grapple with work and family responsibilities presenting many challenges and time demands. Rowan University has evolved from more of a commuter …
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The perceptions of mature aged dental assisting students on the quality of support services offered : a higher education case study
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for M Phil: Management Sciences, Department of Operations and Quality Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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The impact of an adult-focused First-Year Seminar on Tennessee Reconnect students
… the Fall of 2018, which was aimed at the state’s adult learner population and offered a solution for affordable education. With this introduction came pressure for institutions, specifically community colleges in the state, to increase the retention and completion rates of this population of …
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An accessible return : identifying barriers for recruiting and retaining returning adult students at the 4-year institutional level
… education has often overlooked the undergraduate adult student population which comprises roughly 25% of the undergraduate student population in the United States. Given the decrease in traditional students entering college and the looming high school graduate enrollment cliff, the adult student …