ERIC Number: EJ1121504
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1913-9020
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Social and Academic Support and Adaptation to College: Exploring the Relationships between Indicators' College Students
Turkpour, Azita; Mehdinezhad, Vali
International Education Studies, v9 n12 p53-60 2016
The aim of this study was to demonstrate the relation between social and academic support on student ability to adapt to college. Results demonstrated a weak and reverse relation between expression of support and personal ability to adapt and total adaptation. A direct relation was determined between emotional support and social adaptation and dependence adaptation; a direct relation was determined between socializing and social adaptation and total adaptation; a direct relation was determined between practical support and social and dependence adaptation, among a various types of academic support, expression of support predicted student ability to adapt to university, as well as a variety of social support, socialization predicted student ability to adapt to university.
Descriptors: Academic Support Services, College Environment, College Students, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Correlation, Socialization, Student Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Regression (Statistics), Predictor Variables, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
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