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Direct linkZhou, Yuyang – ProQuest LLC, 2017
After Chinese students come to the U.S., the acculturation process is an important predictor of Chinese international college students' personal well-being and future academic achievement. Researchers and practitioners keep seeking factors that could help them in the acculturation process. This research investigated how those students' parenting…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Asians, Acculturation
Peer reviewedZhang, Jing; Savla, Jyoti; Cheng, Hsiu-Lan – Youth & Society, 2019
Using data from Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, this study examined the longitudinal effects of cumulative risk of immigrant parents on immigrant youth's health and educational achievement in young adulthood. The mediating effects of intra- (i.e., family cohesion) and inter-familial (i.e., parental school involvement) social capital…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Capital, Longitudinal Studies, Risk
Godwin, Angela Felicia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
First-generation students are more likely than non-first-generation students to depart from a postsecondary institution before a degree is attained. Factors that could impact academic persistence among first-generation students include low self-efficacy, lack of financial resources and parental support, poor college planning, and minimal school…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Barriers
Gilfert, Christy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research was a quantitative study designed to evaluate parenting satisfaction, academic performance, and students' perceptions of pursuing higher education in students attending community college. One purpose of this research was to determine if pursuing higher education at the community college level impacted the parenting satisfaction of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges
Moilanen, Kristin L.; Raffaelli, Marcela – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
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…
Descriptors: College Students, Mexican Americans, Conflict, Young Adults
Szuchman, Lenore T. – Educational Gerontology, 2006
A National Institute on Aging-funded pilot project to study advice-giving by older adult mothers to their middle-aged daughters was undertaken in a medium-sized teaching-intensive university. The student body and community are highly diverse, and many undergraduates are first-generation college students. In this context, undergraduate psychology…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Older Adults, Mothers, Daughters
