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Child Race and Gender as Moderators of the Association between Teacher-Child Relationships and School Adjustment
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Murray, Christopher; Waas, Gregory A.; Murray, Kelly M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
This investigation examines teacher and child perceptions of teacher-child relationships and early school adjustment among children (N = 157) in low-income urban schools. Consistent with prior research, findings indicated that teacher-child relationships were associated with early school adjustment; however, the strength of this association varied…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Adjustment, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Characteristics
Classroom Research in a General Education Course: Exploring Implications through an Investigation of the Sophomore Slump
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Gump, Steven E. – Journal of General Education, 2007
General education classrooms provide a common milieu for understanding and appropriating results of classroom research projects, which are typically viewed as having little application outside their original contexts. Here, results of an investigation into the "sophomore slump," where grades and class attendance rates typically suffer, are…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Investigations, General Education, Classroom Research
Stressful Life Events, Locus of Control, and Social Support Networks as Predictors of Maladjustment and Illness among College Freshmen.
Dalton, James H.; And Others – 1983
Freshmen college students often experience a dramatic change in activities, values, and personal demands compared to home and previous schooling. To investigate the relationship between psychological maladjustment and stressful life events, locus of control, and social support networks, 62 college freshmen in their first semester of school…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Coping, Higher Education, Locus of Control
Predicting Persistence from the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire: Early Warning or Siren Song?
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Krotseng, Marsha V. – Research in Higher Education, 1992
Using discriminant analysis, a study examined (1) the extent to which the new Student Adjustment to College Questionnaire (SACQ) accurately predicts student departure for a private, comprehensive university (n=1,978 students); (2) SACQ items distinguishing nonpersisters; (3) use with an incoming class; and (4) evidence linking the SACQ with…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Administration, College Students, Higher Education
Intellectual and Emotional Development and School Adjustment in Preterm Children at 6 and 7 Years of Age. Continuation of a Follow-Up Study.
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Grigoroiu-Serbanescu, Maria – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Continues a previous five-year follow-up of preterm and full-term children by studying the continuity in their intellectual and emotional development. Prematurity was predictive for school adjustment at ages six and seven only when regression was performed on the preterm group, but failed to be predictive when mixed groups of preterm and full-term…
Descriptors: Developmental Continuity, Emotional Development, Followup Studies, Intellectual Development
Predictive Factors of Stress among International College Students.
Cho, Sunghee – 1988
A research study of 245 students from Korea, the Arab nations, and Nigeria was conducted to determine whether there are significant relationships between any of the three measures of the level of stress (anxiety, depression, and somatic complaints) among international college students. Variables analyzed in the study included English language…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Correlation, Culture Conflict