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Emotional Detachment Moderates Associations between Students' Perceptions of Parental Support and First-Year College Adjustment: Generational Status Differences
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Lee, Grace Y.; Fletcher, Anne C. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
First-year college students (N = 384) self-reported parental support, emotional detachment from parents, and college adjustment. Higher levels of parental social support were associated with greater academic adjustment, social adjustment, and institutional attachment. Higher levels of emotional detachment were associated with greater institutional…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, College Freshmen
Noncognitive Factors and College Student Success
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Farruggia, Susan P.; Han, Cheon-woo; Watson, Lakeshia; Moss, Thomas P.; Bottoms, Bette L. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2018
Farrington and colleagues developed a model that contends that academic mindsets, academic perseverance, learning strategies, social skills, and academic behaviors affect academic success. This study tests a modified version of this model with first-year students (n = 1,603) at a large, ethnically diverse, urban university. The hypothesized…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Building Strengths Awareness, Belonging, and Persistence in Higher Education
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Soria, Krista M.; Stubblefield, Robin – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
This goal of this study was to examine the benefits of a campus-wide initiative to build first-year students' strengths awareness. The results of a survey of the first-year class (n?=?1,421) suggest a positive and significant relationship between students' strengths awareness and their belief that the strengths initiatives on campus positively…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship
Identification of Multiple Nonreturner Profiles to Inform the Development of Targeted College Retention Interventions
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Mattern, Krista D.; Marini, Jessica P.; Shaw, Emily J. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
Throughout the college retention literature, there is a recurring theme that students leave college for a variety of reasons making retention a difficult phenomenon to model. In the current study, cluster analysis techniques were employed to investigate whether multiple empirically based profiles of nonreturning students existed to more fully…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Multivariate Analysis, Student Characteristics
The Retention Dilemma: Effectively Reaching the First-Year University Student
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Copeland, Kelly J.; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2011
Student success results from positive learning environments which strive to meet the basic psychological needs of students, foster self-determined forms of motivation, and cultivate learning outcomes such as knowledge transfer, meta-cognition, and engagement. Low first-year student retention rates lead many universities to assess factors…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
The Relationship between Barrier Courses and Persistence in Engineering
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Suresh, Radhika – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2007
Attrition in engineering programs continues to be an important issue for universities across the country. This study examined the connection between student performance in barrier courses and persistence in engineering. Quantitative results showed that high school academic experience, student behaviors (including study habits, work habits, coping…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Teaching Styles