Whilst new friendships and an active social life are commonly discussed features of 'being a
student', there is limited empirical research that has quantitatively studied the contribution …

This article argues that to understand higher education student retention, equal emphasis
needs to be placed on successful integration into the social world of the university as into the …

The current study explored first-year student experience in receiving social support and its
relation to their ability to adapt with university ethos. It also explored how social support on …

This study examined the psychometric properties of scores from the University Attachment
Scale, a measure that operationalizes group and member attachment as two separate …

Transition to university involves adapting to a new academic and social environment.
Recent research on this process indicates that a significant number of students experience …

The authors collected questionnaire data from college students (N= 79) at 2 time points
during their freshman year to examine how changes in a sense of university belonging …

Given the challenging transition from secondary school into higher education, this quasi-
experimental study measured the effects of a pre-academic programme (ie before starting at …

This qualitative case study aims to investigate the most common factors that negatively affect
adjustment to university and coping strategies used by first-year university students in the …

This paper, based on research conducted at the main campus of a large Australian multi-
campus university, explores the role of social transition in students' adjustment to the first …

Astin's (1993, p. 398) claim that peers are" the single most potent source of influence" in the
lives of college students comes after decades of theoretical and empirical research …