College students labeled high-risk are often seen in terms of their deficiencies. This study
explores the possibility that college students labeled high-risk are able to develop their …

Through interviews with 35 high-risk college students, the author examines two
questions:(a) To what degree do high-risk college students possess self-authoring ways of …

Through a series of interviews with 27 entering, high-risk college students, this study
investigated the relation between self-authorship, coping style, and adaptation. Findings …

First-generation college students are currently the minority in higher education, yet they are
enrolling in increasing numbers. As a whole, these students tend to experience financial …

Abstract Baxter Magolda, King, Taylor, and Wakefield (2012) found that undergraduate
students underwent developmental changes that reveal a gradual decrease in reliance on …

Concern has been expressed that American society tends to favor individualism over
commitment to, and involvement with, community life. Self-orientation and other-orientation …

Most sources from which college students derive their sense of worth are contingent and,
therefore, often unstable, especially for students in high-performance educational contexts …

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine at-risk high school students'
perspectives of how they perceived their academic success in terms of the variables …

This research examined whether and when learning orientations reduce self-esteem
vulnerability associated with contingent self-worth in the context of difficult academic tasks …

Risk and challenge, resilience and support, and the early development of self-authorship in
a group of 115 academically at-risk adolescents enrolled in a summer training academy are …