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"It's Expected That Students Want to Get Drunk. That Needs to Change": Alcohol Abstainer and Light Drinking University Student Experiences
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Kimberley Hill; Sarah Mansbridge; Amy Watts; Ana Saravanja – Health Education, 2025
Purpose: An increasing non-drinker population is developing, but much research focusses on alcohol misuse, rather than the experiences of those who abstain or consume little alcohol, particularly within student populations. This student co-constructed qualitative research aimed to understand alcohol abstainer and light drinking students'…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Social Influences, Peer Influence
"I Feel Listened to and Heard": How Social Support Fosters a Sense of Belonging for Low-Income STEM Majors
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Madison R. Payne; Nicole D. LaDue; Daryl Dugas; Duangkamon Winitkun; Stephanie Schmidt – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Persistence across undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs is exceptionally low. Recent studies have shown that social support and sense of belonging are particularly important for students who are historically underrepresented in STEM, yet few interventions have directly targeted or investigated these…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Social Support Groups, Sense of Belonging
Sense of Belonging in a Majority-Minority Hispanic Serving Institution
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Christopher Donoghue; Richard S. Reinschmidt; Lauren Chow – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
Sense of belonging is a fundamental human need that can raise the chances of self-actualization and academic success in college. Latine and other historically underrepresented student groups may experience greater challenges in this area than White students due to a greater propensity for feelings of belonging uncertainty, perceptions of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Sense of Community
Factors Associated with Students' Psychological Distress: The Roles of Creativity, Cognitive Flexibility, and Educational (Anti)Mattering
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Alexandra Maftei; Tina Vrabie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2025
The present cross-sectional study examined some of the factors associated with psychological distress among students enrolled in Bachelor's and Master's programs. We investigated the roles of age, academic performance, creativity, cognitive flexibility, educational mattering, and anti-mattering and their roles when discussing participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Playful Study Design: A Novel Approach to Enhancing Student Well-Being and Academic Performance
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Arianna Costantini; Arnold B. Bakker; Yuri S. Scharp – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
We use three studies to develop and validate the new concept of playful study design -- the cognitive-behavioral orientation towards study tasks with the aim to make these tasks more fun and/or more challenging. Based on play and proactive motivation theories, we propose that playful study design can be assessed by items indicating two dimensions:…
Descriptors: Play, Competition, Student Behavior, Well Being
"It's Easy to Feel Alone, but When You Have Community, It Makes [College] a Lot Easier": First-Generation Students' Academic and Psychosocial Adjustment over the First Year of College
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Jovani Azpeitia; Yazmin Meza Lazaro; Sergio A. Ruvalcaba; Guadalupe A. Bacio – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2025
Emerging adult, first-generation college students (FGCSs) face academic and social challenges in their adjustment to college. FGCSs are more likely to be students of color and from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who may face particularly difficult challenges when they attend highly selective, predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) that have…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Adjustment, Predominantly White Institutions, African American Students