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Using a Revised Theory of Student Departure to Understand Student Athlete Persistence
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Reisinger, Scot Hugh – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examined the relationship between intercollegiate participation and persistence in college. In addition, it explored the different factors that influenced student athletes' persistence patterns as compared to non-student athletes at residential liberal arts schools. Using data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education…
Descriptors: Correlation, College Athletics, College Students, Athletes
Understanding the Early Integration Experiences of College Students with Disabilities
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Shepler, Dustin K.; Woosley, Sherry A. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2012
This study sought to better understand the early integration experiences of college students with disabilities by examining two research questions: (1) How well do the variables in Tinto's (1993) classic model of student attrition predict the early integration experiences of college students with disabilities? and (2) How do students with…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Integration, Disabilities, Statistical Analysis
Longitudinal Test of a Social Cognitive Model of Academic and Life Satisfaction
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Singley, Daniel B.; Lent, Robert W.; Sheu, Hung-Bin – Journal of Career Assessment, 2010
The authors tested a social cognitive model of academic and overall life satisfaction in a sample of 769 university students. The predictors, drawn from Lent's unifying perspective on well-being and psychosocial adjustment, included social cognitive (academic self-efficacy, goal progress, social support) and personality (trait positive affect)…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Social Cognition