scholarly journals Use of alcohol and other drugs among male university students and its meanings

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 785-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Maria Rezende Dázio ◽  
Márcia Maria Fontão Zago ◽  
Silvana Maria Coelho Leite Fava
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Public University ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
University Life ◽  
Alcohol And Other Drugs ◽  
Male University Students ◽  
Inductive Analysis

Abstract OBJECTIVE To understand the meanings that male university students assign to the condition of users of alcohol and other drugs. METHOD An exploratory study using a qualitative approach, with inductive analysis of the content of semi-structured interviews applied to 20 male university students from a public university in the southeast region of Brazil, grounded on the theoretical-methodological referential of interpretive anthropology and ethnographic method. RESULTS Data were construed using content inductive analysis for two topics: use of alcohol and/or drugs as an outlet; and use of alcohol and/or other drugs: an alternative for belonging and identity. CONCLUSION Male university students share the rules of their sociocultural environment that values the use of alcohol and/or other drugs as a way of dealing with the demands and stress ensuing from the everyday university life, and to build identity and belong to this social context, reinforcing the influence of culture.

scholarly journals “I Spent Most of Freshers in my Room”—A Qualitative Study of the Social Experiences of University Students on the Autistic Spectrum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Goddard ◽  
Anna Cook
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Social Events ◽  
University Life ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAutistic university students face extra challenges in both their academic and social life. Barriers to socialising appear to be less well understood and supported by universities than academic requirements. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten autistic university students to explore their social experiences. Questions explored their social experiences, satisfaction with social life, disclosure of ASD to others, and the impact of mental wellbeing on university life. Thematic analysis indicated most participants were unsatisfied with their social lives and experienced mental health issues. Factors exacerbating social isolation included lack of suitable social events, lack of social support and feeling unable to disclose to peers. Factors which reduced social isolation included joining an autism or special interest society and receiving social mentoring.

Determinants of quality of life (QoL) and quality of university life (QuL) in Malaysian public university students

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halilah Haron ◽  
Balkish Mohd Osman ◽  
Hamidah Maidinsah ◽  
Maznita Maksari @ Md Sari ◽  
Nurul Qusna Mohd Zaki
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
University Students ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Life

scholarly journals "Most of the People My Age Tend to Move Out"

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Khawla Badwan ◽  
Samantha Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
University Students ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The People ◽  
University Communities ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Male University Students ◽  
The City

Universities are as a means of leaving for the city for young people living increasingly precarious and mobile lives. This article explores how male university students (aged 18–25) talk about, and belong to, the places they inhabit in Greater Manchester, England. Drawing on mixed-methods data collection from survey responses and in-depth semi-structured interviews, this article finds that while young men embrace liquid understandings of place, they express tensions between “insiders” and “outsiders.” While universities appear to be significant places for male university students, only half the participants reported feelings of belonging to university communities. Consequently, this article proposes recommendations for universities, in order to ensure male university students feel they can open up to staff, thereby enabling them to feel part of a “learning community”—a key theme of the National Student Survey.

Ethnicity on the move: Understanding the ethnic identity construction of Zhuang university students experiencing educational mobility in China

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879681989881
Author(s):  
Juexuan Lu ◽  
Xiaoyan (Grace) Guo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
University Students ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Sociocultural Environment ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Ethnic Classification ◽  
Coastal Municipality ◽  
Autonomous Province

This qualitative study investigates a cohort of Zhuang university students’ perceptions of their ethnicity, and the way they construct and negotiate their ethnic identity as they migrate from an inland, ethnic, autonomous province to study in an eastern, coastal municipality. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The findings indicate that the construction of ethnic Zhuang identity is influenced by the interplay between institutional power, sociocultural environment and individual agency. Specifically, participants show three divergent patterns of ethnic identification, namely: receivers, who readily accept their official ethnic classification but have limited ethnic awareness; constructors, who have strong ethnic awareness and strive for ethnic language transmission and heritage culture protection; and utilizers, who are keen on the instrumental values brought by their ethnicity. It is further found that the Zhuang language does not facilitate or strengthen ethnic Zhuang identification due to differences among language varieties.

scholarly journals Internet Addiction and Psychosocial Functioning among University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Hafsa Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Private University ◽  
Public University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychosocial Consequences ◽  
Male University Students ◽  
The Relationship

In the past decade, research has accumulated signifying that excessive Internet use can lead to the development of behavioral addiction. Internet addiction has been measured as a danger to mental health and excessive internet usage has been connected to a variety of harmful psychosocial consequences. The research aims to investigate internet addiction and psychosocial functioning among university students. The study was descriptive. The research objectives included exploring the relationship between Internet Addiction and psychosocial functioning among university students, finding out the statistical difference between psychosocial functioning and duration of daily internet use, and studying the demographical variation such as age, gender, etc among university students influencing Internet Addiction and psychosocial functioning. To achieve these objectives, stratified random sampling was used to collect data from male and female university students of 2 public and 2 private universities in Islamabad. The results show an association between internet addiction and psychosocial function among university students. It further elaborates that male university students are more internet-addicted than females whereas females show higher psychosocial functioning. The result also illustrates that young university students are more internet addiction and psychosocial functioning than other ages. It further explains that a private university shows more internet addiction and psychosocial functioning than a public university.

Different Forms of Work Satisfaction

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Büssing ◽  
Thomas Bissels
Keyword(s):  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Global Satisfaction ◽  
Evaluative Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Level Of Aspiration

The extended model of different forms of work satisfaction ( Büssing, 1991 ), originally proposed by Bruggemann (1974) , is suggested as a distinctive qualitative approach to work satisfaction. Six forms of work satisfaction—progressive, stabilized, resigned satisfaction, constructive, fixated, resigned dissatisfaction—are derived from the constellation of four constituent variables: comparison of the actual work situation and personal aspirations, global satisfaction, changes in level of aspiration, controllability at work. Preliminary evidence from semi-structured interviews with 46 nurses shows that the dynamic model is headed in the right direction (qualitative differentiation of consistently high propertions of satisfied employees, uncovering processes of person-work situation interaction). Qualitative methods demonstrated their usefulness in accessing underlying cognitive and evaluative processes of the forms, which are often neglected by traditional attitude-based satisfaction research.

UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL CAPITAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Antony-Newman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Print Access

This qualitative research involving semi-structured interviews with Ukrainian university students in Canada helps to understand their educational experience using the concept of cultural capital put forward by Pierre Bourdieu. It was found that Ukrainian students possess high levels of cultural capital, which provides them with advantage in Canada. Specific patterns of social inequality and state-sponsored obstacles to social reproduction lead to particular ways of acquiring cultural capital in Ukraine represented by a more equitable approach to the availability of print, access to extracurricular activities, and popularity of enriched curriculum. Further research on cultural capital in post-socialist countries is also discussed.

Resilience and Support Networks for University Students with Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
María Leonila García Cedeño ◽  
Anicia Katherine Tarazona Meza ◽  
Robert Gonzalo Cedeño Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
University Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Pearson Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Student Resilience

Resilience is a phenomenon that can be studied in catastrophic situations but also in everyday matters such as disability, this being an alternative way of working in the environment that requires the adaptation of the social networks that contain and support people with this condition. The research was conducted at the Technical University of Manabí applied to the population of students with disabilities. The paper presents an analysis of support networks and their relationship with student resilience. The results related to the application of the Saavedra-Villalta test are shown, which allowed to correlate the level of resilience of the sample studied with the support networks. An analysis linked to the interpretation of the Pearson correlation coefficient is presented. The result obtained is presented by applying semi-structured interviews to a sample of 48 disabled students.

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