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Why Do College Students in South Korea Drop Out and Stop Out? Impact of Personal Characteristics, College Environment, and College Life
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Jisung Yoo – SAGE Open, 2024
This study examines the determinants influencing students' decisions to drop out or stop out (i.e., withdraw temporarily) from colleges in South Korea. Using Korean Education and Employment Panel II survey data (2016-2019), the determinants of students' college discontinuance of 8,485 students were analyzed and categorized as personal, college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Stopouts, Dropouts
Mind, Body, and Pandemic: Understanding the Complex Relationships between Subjective Well-Being, Physical Activity, and Perceived Multi-Dimensional COVID-19 Impact
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Costas N. Tsouloupas; Constantinos M. Kokkinos – SAGE Open, 2023
In response to the need for further research on factors influencing university students' well-being during challenging circumstances, this study tests a potential mechanism to unravel the complex relationships between perceived impacts of COVID-19 on psychological health, academic performance, and financial status, subjective well-being, and…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Impact of Social Media Use on the Life Satisfaction of Adolescents in South Korea through Social Support and Social Capital
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Doo-Hun Choi – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigated how social media use among South Korean adolescents influences life satisfaction, using two-wave panel survey data. Specifically, this study examined the mediating mechanism by which adolescents' social media use is associated with their life satisfaction through social support and social capital. The results demonstrated…
Descriptors: Social Media, Life Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Correlation
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Digital Stress Scale in a Chinese College Sample
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Chunlei Gao; Mingqing Jian; Ailin Yuan – SAGE Open, 2024
The Digital Stress Scale (DSS) is used to measure digital stress, which is the perceived stress and anxiety associated with social media use. In this study, the Chinese version of the DSS was validated using a sample of 721 Chinese college students, 321 males and 400 females (KMO = 0.923; Bartlett = 5,058.492, p < 0.001). Confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics, Anxiety
Prevalence and Detailed Experience of Nightmare and Nightmare Disorder in Chinese University Students
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Wang, Chu; Xu, Jiayao; Wang, Mufan; Shao, Xu; Wang, Wei – SAGE Open, 2021
Nightmares influence the mental health of university students, but the prevalence of nightmare and nightmare disorder requires additional documentation. The data of detailed nightmare experience of nightmare disorder and related depressive mood in this population are also scarce. First, a total of 1,451 students in a comprehensive Chinese…
Descriptors: Incidence, Sleep, Psychological Patterns, At Risk Persons
Trajectories of Self-Esteem Development for Adolescence Based on China Family Panel Studies: A Piecewise Growth Mixture Model Analysis
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Huang, Jiaqin; Xie, Xin; Pan, Yuxi; Li, Guangming; Zhang, Fadi; Cui, Ningjing – SAGE Open, 2022
Self-esteem has always been a hot research object in the field of adolescent mental health. But in longitudinal research, using a single slope to describe the trajectory of adolescent self-esteem is unrealistic. The piecewise growth mixture model (PGMM) was used to fit the data in this study. Selecting from China Family Panel Studies database, a…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Developmental Stages, Longitudinal Studies, Mental Health