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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Revisiting First-Year College Students' Mattering: Social Support, Academic Stress, and the Mattering Experience
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Rayle, Andrea Dixon; Chung, Kuo-Yi – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2008
In this study, Nancy Schlossberg's (1989) theory of college students' mattering to others was revisited. Mattering is the experience of others depending on us, being interested in us, and being concerned with our fate. The relationships of gender, mattering to college friends and the college environment, and friend and family social support with…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, Stress Variables, Social Support Groups
Relationship of Self-Beliefs, Social Support, and University Comfort with the Academic Success of Freshman College Women
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Rayle, Andrea Dixon; Kurpius, Sharon E. Robinson; Arredondo, Patricia – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2007
The relationships of self-beliefs, social support, and university comfort with the academic persistence decisions and first-year grade point averages of 527 first semester female undergraduates were examined. Data were gathered in 56 classes or group meetings. These three constructs predicted academic persistence decisions, with social support as…
Descriptors: Females, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence