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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"College Student-Athletes"”.
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An examination of college student athletes' academic achievement
… growing concern over the academic performance of student athletes in today’s institutions of higher education. Across all media, the public is constantly reminded that the success rate of student athletes is not what it should be. One hypothesis for this poor performance is that athletes are not …
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Environmental Factors Influencing College Student Athletes Quality of Life
<p>College students face a number of obstacles to achieving success in their desired areas of occupation. However, fulfilling all the responsibilities of their other roles as well may present a risk for occupational imbalances. This is typically the case when examining the lifestyles of collegiate …
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Stress, Depression, Social Support, and Help-Seeking in College Student-Athletes
<p>Student-athletes have been identified as a distinctive sub-population in universities and colleges that face unique stressors and pressures that may put them at risk for developing mental health problems, including depression, when compared to student non-athletes. However, student-athletes have …
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Impact of Social Media on the Mental Health of College Student Athletes
… of social media on the mental health of college student-athletes. With the adoption of social media platforms and the challenges faced by college student-athletes, understanding the implications of social media usage becomes a priority. This study examines the potential positive and …
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Tale of the Tape: A Study of Two-year College Student-Athletes
… programs bring many unique elements to a college campus, many of which help to create a comprehensive student experience. Quantifying this experience is difficult as little data has been collected historically on two-year college athletes. The purpose of conducting this study was to create …
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Successful African American Community College Student Athletes’ Perceptions of Factors of Academic Success
<p>California community colleges are facing serious obstacles in relation to students of color achieving academic success. African American men see the community college as a pathway toward economic and social mobility; however, collectively they have disparate outcomes in every conceivable marker …
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College athletic department administrators' attitudes toward college student athletes and their academic and athletic success
… this study was to investigate the attitudes of college athletic department administrators (athletic directors, faculty representatives, football coaches, and basketball coaches) toward the athletic and academic achievement of student athletes and to compare administrators' perceptions with those …
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Academic and athletic motivation: predictors of academic performance of college student-athletes at a Division III university
… can predict the academic performance of student-athletes at a Division III university. An additional purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between academic and athletic motivation in Division III student-athletes, as well as the motivational patterns across academic …
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An Examination of Two-Year College Student-Athletes’ Perceived Engagement in Academic Advising, Supplemental Instruction, and Academic Alert Systems
… higher education face challenges to improve the student success measures of retention, progression, and graduation, which are metrics used to evaluate colleges and universities. One way in which many institutions have sought to increase accessibility to higher education and student engagement is …
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The Effectiveness of a Learning Strategies Course on College Student-Athletes' and Non-Athletes' Adjustment, Academic Performance, and Retention after the First Two Years of College
… research I had performed that suggested that a student success course is an effective intervention to assist student-athletes in the adjustment to college. Participants in the current study included 4 groups of students, including (1) non-athletes and (2) student-athletes who were mandated and …
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Cultivating resilience in the face of "not enough": exploring shame and shame-coping in U.S. college sport
… column, the scoreboard, or the judges’ table, athletes may inevitably face ‘not enough,’ shame-inducing experiences in their sport (Coakley, 2016; Lazarus, 2000; Ryall, 2019). Shame is a destructive psycho-socio-cultural experience of psychological isolation that can lead to performance …
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Investigating academic motivation among NCAA division I football players within their competition and non-competition semesters.
<p>Recent data indicates that college student athletes are graduating at higher rates than their non-student athlete peers; however, among student athletes in general, revenue sport student athletes are well below other college sport student athletes in terms of academic performance. One variable …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE OF COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE INTEGRATION
Research has shown that a student's level of institutional integration is a better predictor of college persistence than academic performance (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1980). Tinto (1975) proposed that institutional integration is the student's perception of his/her fit to the university he/she is …
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Advising the academically underprepared first-year community college student athlete for transferability
Student athletes attending and competing at a two-year community college often aspire to compete their last 2 years at a Division I four-year college or university. The impact of advising community college athletes can influence their ability to transfer to an NCAA Division I institution. Students …
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Grit and Student-Athlete Performance: A Case Study.
… to investigate the relationship between grit and student-athlete academic and sport performance. An exploratory study was conducted using a case study methodology, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research. The Grit Short Scale (Duckworth, 2007) was employed on student-athletes at an …
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The Influence of Social Norms on Athletes' Alcohol-Related Decision Making for Others
… decision making for others in a sample of athletes, with a focus on the effect of injunctive norms on decision making. Based on social values theory, it was expected that decisions made for others would align more closely with the injunctive norms in comparison to self-decisions. Online …
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Intercultural interaction among student-athletes at an NCAA Division I University
… to explore the intercultural interactions among college student-athletes at a Division IA university. The primary research question of this study was: How do individual cultural identities contribute to the experience of diversity and inclusion on a sports team? This study was designed to examine …
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Examining student athlete attitudes towards art therapy
<p>College student athletes, as an underserved clinical population with documented barriers and stigma attached to seeking mental health treatment, might present as a suitable group to expose to art therapy as a treatment modality. To gauge interest in art therapy, this student researcher recruited …
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Self-Perception of NCAA Division I Student-Athletes
… there is a gap in the research as it pertains to college student-athletes (Harter & Neemann, 2012). This study measures self- perception scores, as well as experiences with racial discrimination, of 306 NCAA Division I student-athletes using the Self-Perception Profile for College Students (Harter …
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