Measuring, monitoring and managing the psychological well-being of first year university students

Degrees of resilience: profiling psychological resilience and prospective academic achievement in university inductees

“…Amid concerns for unexpectedly high rates of non-continuation and drop-out, there have been calls to understand the psychological well-being of university students on entry and longitudinally throughout the academic cycle (Cooke et al, 2006;Grant, 2002). Indeed, gaining insight into the character strengths of university applicants may be a more effective tool for selecting those who are more likely to complete their studies than traditional qualification entry grades (Mathews, 2012;Tough, 2011).…”

Étude de trois facteurs clés pour comprendre la persévérance à l’université

“…Les déterminants de la réussite et de l'abandon dans l'enseignement supérieur ont préoccupé les chercheurs depuis des décennies (voir notamment Cooke, Bewick, Barkham et al, 2006 ;Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). Dans leur livre How college affects students, Pascarella et Terenzini (1991) ont identifié plus de 3 000 de ces recherches, menées dans les années soixante-dix et quatre-vingt.…”

New students' psychological well‐being and its relation to first year academic performance in a UK university

“…The instrument consists of 14 items with a fivepoint Likert scale, ranging from "0=not at all" to "4=most or all of the time", with higher scores indicating higher levels of concern and distress. The CORE-GP has acceptable reliability and validity (Sinclair et al, 2005;Cooke et al, 2006). In the current study a Cronbach"s alpha of .861 was found, indicating acceptable internal reliability.…”

“…We focused on the first year experience because anxiety increases on joining university (Cooke et al 2006), a significant proportion of students have problems adjusting to university life (Lowe and Cooke 2003), and student well-being in the first year is poorer than in the general population (Roberts & Zelenyanski, 2002). We conceptualised wellbeing in terms of personal concerns, self-esteem and social anxiety because these variables often occurred in our academic and clinical experience of students.…”