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Download full textWalter, Todd J.; And Others – 1993
Research has demonstrated that depressed people lack the optimistic bias evidenced by nondepressed persons and that the former may be more realistic in predicting the outcome of future events (depressive realism hypothesis). This study assesses the depressive realism hypothesis by comparing the accuracy of depressed and nondepressed people's…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Expectation, Higher Education
McDonough, Patricia M.; And Others – 1997
This paper presents a model of college choice that suggests that students' choice of college can be related to perceived "capital conversion" benefits. The model was tested on an evenly distributed sample (n=22,109) of students; one group attending elite colleges (with average freshman Scholastic Assessment Test scores of 1200 or higher)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Capital, Cognitive Style, College Attendance
