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Cayetano-Penman, Joy; Malik, Gulzar; Hampton, Kerry; Zhong, Yaping – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
International health science students face many challenges at the beginning of their courses, including a lack of awareness of cultural differences, adjusting to academic expectations, communication difficulties, clinical placement challenges, financial pressures, maintaining cultural and religious practices, discrimination, and emotions such as…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students
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Suldo, Shannon M.; Shaunessy, Elizabeth; Michalowski, Jessica; Shaffer, Emily J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
Students who are enrolled in academically challenging curricula face a multitude of stressors related to increased academic demands in addition to the developmental and biological challenges that are normative to adolescence. This article presents results of a qualitative study conducted to uncover the coping styles of students in a rigorous…
Descriptors: Coping, Student Behavior, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students
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Mietzner, Sara; Lin Li-Wen – College Student Journal, 2005
This study examined if experienced long-distance relationship (LDR) participants would be willing to be involved in a LDR again. In addition, although positive and negative outcomes have been reported in LDRs research, very little research investigated relationship skills gained during a LDR. Students in a Midwestern university completed…
Descriptors: Time Management, Intimacy, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship
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Noppe, Illene C.; Noppe, Lloyd D.; Bartell, Denise – Death Studies, 2006
This study examined the impact of terrorism on adolescents, who may be resolving developmental issues regarding their vulnerability to death. Approximately 4 months after the September 11th attacks, a survey was given to 973 Upper Midwest adolescents and teachers. Quantitative analyses indicated that adolescents (especially girls) were frightened…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Terrorism, Student Attitudes
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Clifton, Rodney A.; Perry, Raymond P.; Stubbs, Christine Adams; Roberts, Lance W. – Research in Higher Education, 2004
Postsecondary institutions seek to create a pedagogical environment that increases students' knowledge, expands their powers of reasoning, and shapes their psychosocial dispositions. In this study, we examined a conceptual model of academic attainment including two aspects of the pedagogical environment experienced by students, namely the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Environment, Personality, Academic Achievement
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Clark, Rodney – Journal of Black Psychology, 2004
This study explored perceived racism and the usual ways of coping with these perceptions in a sample of 269 Black university students (53% female). Perceptions of inter- and intragroup racism were assessed with the Life Experiences and Stress scale, and coping was measured with the Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced scale. A principal…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Stress Variables, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes