Development and Evaluation of the Inventory of New College Student Adjustment

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua C. Watson ◽  
A. Stephen Lenz
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
First Year College ◽  
College Student Adjustment ◽  
First Year College Students

The Inventory of New College Student Adjustment (INCA) was developed to assist college student personnel in assessing adjustment difficulties experienced by first-year college students. A sample of 474 first-year college students (282 women, 59%; 192 men, 41%) enrolled in a first-year seminar course at a medium-sized 4-year university in the central southern region of the United States completed the INCA. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed a two-factor scale explaining 47.17% of the variance in scores. Convergent validity analyses support the INCA as a sufficiently valid measure suitable for use as a brief screening tool in both research and practice settings.

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 Potential differences between the political attitudes of people with same-sex parents and people with different-sex parents: An exploratory assessment of first-year college students

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0246929
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Flores ◽  
Maisy Morrison
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
First Year ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Same Sex Parents

Children were often near the center of public debates about legal marriage recognition for same-sex couples. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the case that resulted in legal same-sex marriage recognition, stressed the importance of these children as one of many factors compelling the opinion. Estimates indicated same-sex couples were raising 200,000 children in the United States. Children raised by same-sex couples may be politically socialized in distinct ways compared to children of different-sex couples because lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals tend to hold distinct and progressive political viewpoints on a wide variety of issues. What are the political attitudes of people with same-sex parents? In this exploratory study, we analyze a large, representative survey of first-year college students across the United States; we find few differences between people with same-sex and different-sex parents, and some of those differences may be attributable to households and respondent characteristics. When on the rare occasion a difference exists, we find that people with same-sex female parents are more progressive, but people with same-sex male parents are more conservative. Gender differences also emerged, with some distinctive patterns between males with same-sex parents and females with same-sex parents.

scholarly journals Know Your Safe Drinking Skills: Adaptation Strategies for the College Effect

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Lin ◽  
John L. Christensen ◽  
Anne Borsai Basaran
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Alcohol Prevention ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
College Life ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Drinking Frequency

Objective: The current study investigates the effects of an alcohol-prevention program delivered to college students in a formal classroom setting. Participants: The sample comprised 231 first-year college students who enrolled in a multisection “First Year Experience” course at a large northeastern university in the United States. Method: A naturalistic experiment was conducted, with a baseline evaluation at the beginning of the semester and a post-experiment evaluation near the end of the semester. Results: Social drinking attitudes, proximal drinking norm and the college effect are significant predictors of pre- and post-intervention episodic drinking frequency. The intervention reduced episodic drinking frequency as well as perceived distal and proximal drinking norms. It also increased drinking attitudes and did not change perceived efficacy or drinking-outcome expectancies. Conclusions: Practitioners could consider implementing a similar intervention to allow students to learn and practice safe drinking skills in the first year of their college life.

Social media intensity and first-year college students’ academic self-efficacy in Flanders and the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-137
Author(s):  
Jenna McNallie ◽  
Elisabeth Timmermans ◽  
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall ◽  
Jan Van den Bulck ◽  
Steven R. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

Comparison With the Typical College Student Predicts Graduation When Identity Is Uncertain

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
David J. Lane
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
First Year ◽  
College Graduation ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students

This study investigated the effect of personal identity and social comparison on college graduation. First-year college students completed an online survey measuring exploration and commitment to personal identity and perceptions of the prototypical student. Those who perceived the typical student as favorable but dissimilar to themselves had the lowest probability of graduating within 6 years if they were also not committed to a personal identity. Among students with a clearly established identity, comparison with the typical student was unrelated to graduation. The results suggest that commitment to a personal identity protects students against the potentially deleterious effects of social comparison.

Gambling and Alcohol Use Among First-Year College Students

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey L. Rocha ◽  
M. Dolores Cimini ◽  
Angelina X. Diaz-Myers ◽  
Matthew P. Martens ◽  
Estela M. Rivero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year College ◽  
First Year College Students

Is Pre-College Interpersonal Trauma Associated with Cannabis Use?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrell A Hicks ◽  
Daniel Bustamante ◽  
Kaitlin E Bountress ◽  
Amy Adkins ◽  
Dace S Svikis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Interpersonal Trauma ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
First Year ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
First Year College ◽  
Large N ◽  
First Year College Students ◽  
Experimental Use

Objective: To examine the prevalence and correlates of lifetime cannabis use (i.e., experimental [use 1-5 times] and non-experimental [use ≥ 6 times]) in relation to demographics, interpersonal trauma (IPT), and alcohol and nicotine use.Participants: A large (n = 9,889) representative sample of college students at an urban college campus in the southeastern part of the United States.Methods: Participants were 4 cohorts of first-year college students who completed measures of demographic variables, cannabis, alcohol, nicotine, and IPT. Associations were estimated using multinomial logistic regressions.Results: The prevalence of lifetime cannabis use was 45.5%. Specifically, 28.1% reported non-experimental cannabis use and 17.4% reported experimental cannabis use. Race, cohort, nicotine, and IPT were associated with experimental and non-experimental cannabis use. Additionally, alcohol and sex were associated with non-experimental cannabis use.Conclusions: Results show that cannabis use is prevalent among college students and is associated with race, IPT, and other substance use.

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