scholarly journals Impact of Study Skills and Parent Education on First-Year GPA Among College Students With and Without ADHD: A Moderated Mediation Model

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Gormley ◽  
Trevor Pinho ◽  
Brittany Pollack ◽  
Kristina Puzino ◽  
Melanie K. Franklin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Service Utilization ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: To test if the relationship between ADHD and academic achievement is mediated by service utilization and/or study skills, and if these mediation effects are moderated by parental education level. Method: A bootstrapping method within structural equation modeling was used with data from 355 first year college students meeting strict criteria for ADHD or clearly without ADHD to test the mediation and moderation effects. Results: Study skills, but not service utilization, significantly mediated the relationship between ADHD status and GPA; however, this relationship was not significant among students with at least one parent holding a master’s degree or higher. Conclusion: Among first year college students study skills may be a more salient predictor of educational outcomes relative to ADHD status. Additional research into support services for college students with ADHD is needed, however, results suggest interventions targeting study skills may hold particular promise for these students.

Precollege Exposure to Racial/Ethnic Difference and First-Year College Students’ Racial Attitudes

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Bowman ◽  
Dafina-Lazarus Stewart
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year College ◽  
Interracial Friendships ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Background/Context Despite burgeoning racial and ethnic heterogeneity within the United States, many students grow up in racially homogeneous schools and neighborhoods. This lack of interracial interaction appears to play a substantial role in shaping students’ racial attitudes and world views upon entering college. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study The aim of the study was to examine the relationships among multiple forms of precollege exposure to racial/ethnic diversity and racial attitudes (e.g., perceptions of workplace discrimination) upon entering college. Research Design A quantitative survey examined attitudes, precollege environments, and other indicators among 3,924 entering first-year college students (with approximately equal numbers of Asian Americans, Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites) at 28 U.S. colleges and universities. Structural equation modeling analyses were conducted on the full sample as well as several racial/ethnic groups separately. Conclusions/Recommendations Findings indicated that exposure to racial/ethnic difference in students’ precollege neighborhoods and schools predict high school interracial friendships, which in turn predict their complex racial attitudes. The multigroup analyses further demonstrate that the relationships between interracial friendships and multiple racial attitudes are nonsignificant among White students, but significant for all other groups. These findings have implications for the promotion of meaningful curricular and cocurricular diversity interventions both before and during college.

scholarly journals Three-Wave Longitudinal Survey on the Relationship between Neuroticism and Depressive Symptoms of First-Year College Students: Addictive Use of Social Media as a Moderated Mediator

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6074
Author(s):  
Weiqi Mu ◽  
Dongyun Zhu ◽  
Yanhong Wang ◽  
Fugui Li ◽  
Liyuan Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
First Year ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Relationship

First-year college students’ adaptation problems and related mental health have attracted researchers’ attention. The current research focuses on the depressive symptoms of first-year college students and aims to explore the relationship between the neuroticism trait and depressive symptoms, the mediating effect of addictive use of social media, and the moderating effect of psychological resilience. Three-wave longitudinal data from 1128 first-year students at a university in Fujian Province, China, were collected within three months of their enrollment. PROCESS macro for SPSS with bootstrapping was used to test the model. Results showed that the prevalence of moderate to severe severity of depressive symptoms in first-year students was 10.28% (T1) and 11.17% (T3). Addictive use of social media (T2) plays a moderated mediator role in the relationship between neuroticism (T1) and depressive symptoms (T3) of first-year students. Specifically, a low neuroticism individual does not necessarily have a less addictive use of social media. Psychological resilience (T1) moderated the above mediation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Tracking Social Isolation, Academic Self-Effifacy and Adjustment to College

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Connolly ◽  
David Oberleitner ◽  
Joseph Guarneri
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
College Adjustment ◽  
Rejection Sensitivity ◽  
First Year ◽  
Adjustment To College ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
The Relationship

Widespread investigations of the prevalence of experienced social isolation, and how social isolation, college adjustment and collegiate self-efficacy interact, have not been widely studied. Given the literature on each of these domains, it can be surmised that these factors all interact and impact first-year college students. As such, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between social isolation, rejection sensitivity, and collegiate self-efficacy with college adjustment.

Suicide Risk Among College Student

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 416-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shadick ◽  
Faedra Backus Dagirmanjian ◽  
Baptiste Barbot
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
First Year ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
First Year College ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
First Year College Students

Abstract. Background: Research on young adults in the general population has identified a relationship between sexual minority identification and risk for suicide. Differential rates of suicidal ideation and attempts have also been found across racial and ethnic groups. Aims: This study examined risk for suicide among university students, based on membership in one or more marginalized groups (sexual minority and racial minority identification). Method: Data were collected from first-year college students (N = 4,345) at an urban university. Structural equation modeling was employed to model a suicidality construct, based on which a "risk for suicide" category system was derived. Chi-square and logistic regression analyses were then conducted to estimate the relationship between the background variables of interest and suicide risk. Results: Students who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) were associated with higher suicide risk than their heterosexual peers. Students of color were slightly less at risk than their heterosexual peers. However, LGB students of color were associated with elevated suicide risk relative to heterosexual peers. Conclusion: Results indicate that belonging to multiple marginalized groups may increase one's risk for suicide, though these effects are not simply additive. Findings highlight the complexity of the intersection between marginalized identities and suicidality.

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