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Adjustment Trajectories during the College Transition: Types, Personal and Family Antecedents, and Academic Outcomes
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Larose, Simon; Duchesne, Stéphane; Litalien, David; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Boivin, Michel – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This longitudinal study was aimed to describe and understand student adjustment trajectories during the college transition. Participants came from a large random sample of Quebec high school students. They completed a multidimensional measure of adjustment at two times before entering college and at two other times after college admission.…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, High School Students, College Bound Students, College Students
Achievement Goals, Motivations, and Social and Emotional Adjustment in High School: A Longitudinal Mediation Test
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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F. – Educational Psychology, 2020
This 2-year prospective study aimed to examine the predictive role of students' achievement goals (mastery-approach and performance-avoidance) on socioemotional adjustment in high school by assessing the potential mediating contribution of academic motivations. A total of 407 high school students (46% boys) were surveyed each year in Secondary 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
Conceptualizing High School Students' Mental Health through a Dual-Factor Model
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Suldo, Shannon M; Thalji-Raitano, Amanda; Kiefer, Sarah M.; Ferron, John M. – School Psychology Review, 2016
Mental health is increasingly viewed as a complete state of being, consisting of the absence of psychopathology and the presence of positive factors such as subjective well-being (SWB). This cross-sectional study analyzed multimethod and multisource data for 500 high school students (ages 14-18 years, M = 15.27 years, SD = 1.0 years) to examine…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mental Health, Models, Student Adjustment
Peer Victimization and Parental Psychological Control in Adolescence
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Ma, Ting-Lan; Bellmore, Amy – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
With a sample of 831 U.S. adolescents (49% girls) followed from 9th to 11th grade, the directionality of the association between school-based peer victimization and adolescents' perception of their parents' psychological control were examined. Possible mediating influences of internalizing symptoms were also explored. The results highlight the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Adolescents, Social Adjustment, Psychology
An Examination of the Role of Social Support, Coping Strategies, and Individual Characteristics in Students' Adaptation to College
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Bejerano, Arleen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Adaptation, or adjustment, is a psycho-social process that occurs when an individual accepts and integrates into his or her life a transition from one situation to another situation (Schlossberg, 1981). Many individuals struggle with transitions because transitions involve changes in the environment, roles, routines, and/or ways of looking at the…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Coping, Student Adjustment, Developmental Tasks
Former High School Student-Athletes' Academic, Social, and Emotional Adjustment to Community College
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Raye, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The end of high school marks the time when the most number of individuals will end their participation playing sports at a competitive level. For those pursuing higher education, it has been viewed as a stressful experience for many freshmen. Former high school athletes that enter college as "students" and not…
Descriptors: High School Students, Athletes, Competition, College Freshmen