This study examined the influence of peer selection and socialization effects on binge drinking (BD) behaviors during the transition to college. Participants included 196 first-year college students (72.9% female) from a large Southeastern public university who reported BD pre-college (Time 1) and three months post-matriculation (Time 2). At Time 2, participants identified their closest new col...

Compared to other ethnic and racial groups, Hispanic youth are worse off in every available measure of educational achievement and attainment at the primary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. Using data from the Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project, we explore the degree to which students’ preferences to stay home for college can help explain the low college application rates of Hispan...

The purpose of this study are to construct the College Life Anxiety Scale for measuring the level of college students' anxiety and to examine its reliability and validity. After collecting items about the anxiety in college life, factor analysis was performed on the data obtained from 2,782 college students. The result, firstly, showed that the College Life Anxiety Scale consisting of 30 items ...

Mission Statement The College Board's mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. We are a not-for-profit membership organization committed to excellence and equity in education. The College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the College Board was created to expand access to hig...

BACKGROUND Expanded efforts to detect and treat depression among college students, a peak period of onset, have the potential to bear high human capital value from a societal perspective because depression increases college withdrawal rates. However, it is not clear whether evidence-based depression therapies are as effective in college students as in other adult populations. The higher levels ...

background: behavioral risk factors are responsible for a substantial portion of chronic disease. educating patients is a professional responsibility of medical practitioners. however, it has been observed that physicians did not practice what they preach. we aimed to study whether medical colleges inculcate health‑promoting lifestyle among medical students during their stay in medical colleges...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of risk for sleep disorders among college students by gender and age, and their associations with grade point average (GPA). PARTICIPANTS Participants were 1,845 college students at a large, southeastern public university. METHODS A validated sleep disorder questionnaire surveyed sleep data during the 2007-2008 academic year. Students' GPAs were obtained ...

background various studies have been conducted in many countries to determine the perception/awareness about plastic surgery. the present study assessed the views of college students about plastic surgery. methods a questionnaire consisted of nine questions regarding the basic knowledge about plastic surgery was randomly distributed among college students. the students were given 20 minutes to ...

This study compared and analyzed the situation of the college students’ professional identification among different employment scopes to explore the influence from the scopes to the professional identification. The result indicates that the present situation of college students’ professional identification is not satisfactory. We did not find remarkable difference between implicit and explicit ...