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Festa, Mackenzie M.; Knotts, Kevin G. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2021
Self-leadership examines how individuals can motivate themselves through behavior focused strategies, constructive thought patterns, and natural reward strategies. This study examined the potential influence of self-leadership on financial self-efficacy, credit card debt, and student loan debt among college students. Data were collected from a…
Descriptors: Money Management, Self Efficacy, Debt (Financial), Student Financial Aid
Yao, Rui; Meng, Xiangyi – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2018
Credit cards have become a common method of payment for college students in China. It is important that they form good credit card usage behaviors and build a good credit history early in their financial life. Using data collected from 10 universities in China, results of this study found that being financially dependent on their parents is…
Descriptors: College Students, Credit (Finance), Foreign Countries, Money Management
Knaff, Cassandra; Fletcher, Carla; Cornett, Allyson – Trellis Company, 2022
Postsecondary students face a myriad of complex financial decisions and tasks, such as financing their education, choosing a major with a return on investment, budgeting, and crafting repayment strategies for credit card and student loan debt(s). With respect to student loans, many borrowers feel "burdened by the repayment process" and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Paying for College, Money Management, Student Loan Programs
Sallie Mae Bank, 2018
Introduced this year, "How America Pays for Graduate School" is a national study by Sallie Mae, conducted by Ipsos. This new study is designed to complement Sallie Mae's "How America Pays for College" report, which, for the last 10 years, has provided insights into how American families plan and pay for college, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Paying for College, Graduate Students, Educational Finance
Anderson, Carla; Card, Karen – College Student Journal, 2015
The purpose of this quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group study was to determine the influence that a financial education intervention administered in First Year Experience courses had on students' perceptions of their financial behavior such as compulsive spending and credit card use. This study utilized the five-point Likert-type…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups, Money Management, Credit (Finance)
Peach, Nathan D.; Yuan, Haowen – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2017
In this study the relationship between undergraduates' financial knowledge, behaviours, and attitudes are explored. These three dimensions of financial capability are considered in order to identify ways in which they influence one another. Data are collected via a survey administered at a small, private university in the United States. Financial…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes, Money Management
Rehr, Tori I.; Regan, Erica P.; Abukar, Zayd; Meshelemiah, Jacquelyn C. A. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2022
Among many challenges that first-generation college students face, navigating how to balance the financial costs of college with covering monthly expenses can be particularly challenging. The present study uses the lens of person-in-environment theory to conceptualize how the financial attitudes, behaviors, and resources of first-generation…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Money Management, Paying for College, Costs
García, Elena Moreno – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The purpose of the study was to assess the level of education that public accounting graduates in Veracruz, Mexico have regarding financial topics. Financial education has become an essential skill in people's lives as a result of the evolution of financial markets. It is logical to think that for graduated in the area of accounting it is…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Accounting, College Graduates, Money Management
Williams, Dylan; Waterwall, Brian; Giardelli, Tiffany – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2008
It is no surprise that the amount of credit card debt and outstanding loan balances of college students is increasing every year. College students are heavily targeted by credit companies through the use of e-mail, campus booths, and standard mail. The reason for these solicitations is because of the soaring expense levels of college students and…
Descriptors: College Students, Debt (Financial), Credit (Finance), Surveys
Loukatos, Dimitrios; Arvanitis, Konstantinos G. – Education Sciences, 2019
Inspired by the mobile phone market boost, several low cost credit card-sized computers have made the scene, able to support educational applications with artificial intelligence features, intended for students of various levels. This paper describes the learning experience and highlights the technologies used to improve the function of DIY…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet
Watson, Stevie – College Student Journal, 2009
This study examined attitudinal and behavioral differences between internal and external locus of control (LOC) consumers on credit card misuse, the importance of money, and compulsive buying. Using multiple analysis of variance and separate analyses of variance, internal LOC consumers were found to have lower scores on credit card misuse and…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Credit (Finance), Statistical Analysis, Money Management
Sallie Mae Bank, 2019
Since 2008, Sallie Mae has surveyed American families with an undergraduate student about their attitudes toward college and how they paid for it. The "How America Pays for College" research has provided insight regarding families' belief in the value of a college education, how they are making college more affordable, the relationship…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Undergraduate Students, Parents, Family Income
Anderson, Carla – ProQuest LLC, 2013
College students who are unprepared for financial decision making may make risky decisions such as compulsive spending and debt accumulation. Financial stress impacts both academic achievement and retention. The current literature addresses the deficiency college students have when making financially responsible decisions, but little is mentioned…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Credit (Finance), Money Management, Consumer Education
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Joo, S.-H.; Grable, J. E.; Bagwell, D. C. – Journal of American College Health, 2005
At a southwestern public university, 242 students responded to a questionnaire about their credit-card use and attitudes. The results revealed that about 70 percent of the students held one or more credit cards, and about 10 percent had five or more credit cards. Twenty-two percent never kept copies of their charge slips, and only 49 percent paid…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, College Students, Birth Order, Credit (Finance)
Robb, Cliff A.; Moody, Beth; Abdel-Ghany, Mohamed – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2012
Data collected from two major universities (one in the Midwest and one in the Southeast) in the United States were used to analyze student persistence behavior and perceptions of debt. Results from four separate logistic regression analyses suggested that financial factors play a significant role in student persistence behavior as well as in…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Credit (Finance), Academic Persistence, Performance Factors