Personality, social relationships, and vocational indecision among college students

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W.H. Ng ◽  
Daniel C. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Vocational Indecision

Ethnic identity commitment and socioemotional well-being among Latinx-origin college students: The influence of maternal and peer relationships

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110520
Author(s):  
Zeinab A. Hachem ◽  
Rosa I. Toro
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Immigrant Generation ◽  
Generation Status ◽  
Identity Commitment ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: Considerable research has noted the association between ethnic identity commitment, which refers to a positive affirmation, sense of belonging and heightened level of engagement to one’s ethnic group, and indices of well-being, but less is known in terms of factors that can explain this link. Research Design: The current study explored the relationship between ethnic identity commitment and indices of well-being, the mediating role of social relationships, and the moderating roles of gender and immigrant generation status. Study Sample: A sample of 707 Latinx college students (79% female, 21% male,  M age = 19.08 years,  SD age = 1.17,  Range: 17.00–25.00) reported on ethnic identity commitment, maternal and peer relationship quality, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and anxiety. Results: Results suggested that ethnic identity commitment was positively associated with socioemotional well-being. Although both types of relationships were significant mediators on their own, maternal relationship quality had a greater influence. Furthermore, gender and immigrant generation status were not significant moderators of these indirect effects. Conclusions: Findings indicate that committing to one’s ethnic identity enhances socioemotional well-being. They also demonstrate the complex interplay of social relationships and the enduring influence of maternal relationships during early adulthood. Results support the development of efforts geared toward facilitating ethnic identity commitment as well as leveraging the impact of social relationships in a manner that supports Latinx individuals.

Perceptions of Restricted Relationships of Divorced and Widowed Women and Men

1982 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-228
Author(s):  
Claire Etaugh ◽  
Diane Crump
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Male College ◽  
Limited Support ◽  
Male College Students

48 female and 48 male college students judged the extent to which the formerly married are restricted in their social relationships. Each subject evaluated one of four groups: widowed women, divorced women, widowed men, or divorced men. There was limited support for the hypotheses that the divorced would be perceived as more restricted than the widowed and that women would be perceived as more restricted than men.

Support and conflict in ethnically diverse young adults’ relationships with parents and friends

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Moilanen ◽  
Marcela Raffaelli
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Group Experiences

We examined support and conflict with parents and close friends in a sample of ethnically diverse young adults (European-, Asian-, Cuban-, Latin-, and Mexican Americans). College students ( N = 495) completed six subscales from the Network of Relationships Inventory (NRI; Furman & Buhrmester, 1985). Friends were rated higher than parents on global support by Asian- and European Americans, but not by the three Latino groups. Regardless of ethnic group, friends and parents provided different types of support, and conflict with parents was more frequent than conflict with friends. No differences due to age, gender, or generation of immigration emerged for European-, Cuban-, or Asian Americans; differences emerged attributable to gender among Mexican Americans (support and conflict), and generation of immigration among Latin Americans (support). Findings reveal ethnic group similarities in how college students’ social relationships are structured, but also highlight unique within-group experiences.

Attachment to the Physical Dimension of Places

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1177-1182 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Carmen Hidalgo ◽  
Bernardo Hernández
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Previous Contact

Social relationships had been important in explanation and prediction of attachment to places. Although some have asserted the importance of physical aspects of the environment in the formation of attachment ties to a place, the social environment is required for the formation of bonds to a place, although strong emphasis on the social aspect has been questioned and the importance of the physical environment noted. The present objective in two studies was to test whether college students ( ns = 30 and 27) show a preference for a place they know, independently of the social interactions developed in them. Results confirmed the hypothesis, i.e., after a very brief stay in a certain place with nobody else there, these college students preferred that place to another with which they had not had previous contact.

scholarly journals Identifying Health Motivations among Emerging Adult in China through Self-Determination Theory

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Min AN ◽  
Li Ping LI ◽  
Ming Xia JI ◽  
Ping Ying LI ◽  
Tao HUANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Locus Of Causality ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Common Risk Factors

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. Objectives: College students in China experience unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, drinking, sleep disorders, and sedentary lifestyles, which are common risk factors of chronic diseases. Lifestyle has a profound impact on one’s health. The researchers tried to explore and delineate college students’ motivations for a healthy lifestyle. Methods: 93 undergraduate students (59 males and 34 females; mean age 21.2 years) were interviewed. Verbatim transcripts were analyzed using a theory-directed approach following Self-Determination Theory (SDT). Results: Participants reported five types of health motivation that broadly fall under SDT: absence of motive, external, introjected, identified, and integrated. Sources for motivation identified included health literacy, the environment, and social relationships. Conclusions: Health practitioners in colleges in China should be sensitive to different types of motivation and factors that influence college students’ goals of practicing healthy lifestyles. Effective intervention programs for improving the motivation of college students should address issues related to perceived locus of causality. 目標：中國大學生存在如吸煙，酗酒，睡眠不規律，久坐等不健康的行為方式，這些行為方式是慢性疾病的常見風險因素。 生活方式對一個人的健康產生深遠的影響。在本研究中，研究者試圖探索和描述中國大學生選擇健康生活方式的動機。方法：共訪談了93名本科大學生(其中男性59名，女性34名，平均年齡21.2歲)，並以自我決定理論為依據，對訪談記錄文本進行分析。 結果：參與者大致報告了自我決定理論所描述的五類動機：即缺失的、外部的、攝入的、認同的和整合的等。健康動機的來源大致包括健康素養、環境因素和社會關係。結論：大學的健康實踐者應對影響大學生健康行為的五類不同的動機水準保持敏感，有效的以提高健康動機為目的的教育項目應著重解決因果關係感覺軌跡中的有關問題。

How is happiness related to network of social relationships?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandhyarani Devi Moirangthem ◽  
Nutankumar S. Thingujam
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Best Friends ◽  
Subjective Happiness Scale ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opposite Gender

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between happiness and network of social relationships. Network of relationships inventory-relationship quality version (Furman and Buhrmester, 1985) and subjective happiness scale (Lyubomirsky and Lepper, 1999) was administered on 100 undergraduate college students at Gangtok, Sikkim within age range of 17 to 23 years. Pearson's correlation showed that happiness was significantly positively related with companionship, approval and satisfaction with opposite-gender best-friends, emotional support of mother, satisfaction with same-gender best-friends and siblings. However, happiness was found to be negatively correlated with criticism and pressure of girl/boy friend, criticism of mother and siblings, dominance of father, and exclusion of best friends (same/opposite gender), girl/boy friend, siblings, mother and father.

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