• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.240-251
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• 2019

This study was conducted to analyze the mediating effect of grit and self-leadership on the relationship between military life adaptation and college life adaptation among male college students. The subjects of this study were 233 male college students who returned to college after military duty and the average age was 25(SD=1.7). The main results of the study were as follows: First, significant positive relationships were seen between military life adaptation, grit, self-leadership, and college life adaptation. Second, military life adaptation had a significant positive impact on grit, self-leadership, and college life adaptation. Third, grit had a significant mediating effect on the relationship between military life adaptation and college life adaptation. Fourth, self-leadership had a significant mediating effect on the relationship between military life adaptation and college life adaptation. This study showed that military life adaptation improved the grit and self-leadership of college students and that this personal growth had a significant effect on college life adaptation after returning from military duty. Based on these results, the relationship between military life and college life was discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.259-268
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• 2016

This study investigates convergent influence on college life adaptation and its association with life stress, depression and ego resiliency among of nursing students. The data of life stress, depression and ego resiliency on college life adaptation was collected for the nursing students of G city from Dec. 5th 2015 to Feb. 8th 2016. There was a significant difference in life stress, college life adaptation according to club experience and grade level, depression according to best friend and ego resiliency according to satisfaction with major. Adaptation to college life was negatively correlated with life stress and it was positively correlated with ego resiliency. Life stress and ego resiliency is a significant predictor of college life adaptation in nursing students. Their explanatory power was 32.9%. In order to help nursing college students to adapt to college life well, it will be necessary to provide the intervention to decrease the degree of life stress and to the improvement convergence program on ego resiliency.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.14-22
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• 2022

This study was conducted to promote male nursing students' adaptation to college life by identifying life stress, grit, and degree of adaptation to college life, and the effect of grit mediating effect on the relationship between life stress and college life adjustment. became The subjects of this study were 209 male nursing college students enrolled in nursing departments in 5 major cities. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS/WIN 25.0. Life stress showed a significant negative correlation with college life adaptation and grit, but grit showed a positive correlation with college life adaptation. As a result of mediating effect verification, the final model explained 43.5% of college life adaptation. Therefore, in order to improve male nursing students' adaptation to college life, it is required to develop a program that can lower life stress and increase grit and college life adaptation level.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.8948-8956
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of college life adaptation program on nursing students' college life adaptation and nursing professional attitude. College life adaptation program of a freshman at college which consists of two area : theory-practice and liberal-cultivation of character and college freshman for 70 hours, 5 a week in 10 session for 2 weeks. The collected data were analyzed using paired t-test, ANOVA. As a result of the study, the score for college life adaptation(t=11.42, p=<.000) and nursing professional attitude(t=12.45, p=<.000) increased significantly after college life adaptation program. The conclusion, this study showed that college life adaptation program was effective in improving nursing students' college life adaptation and nursing professional attitude.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.219-228
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between anger expression, social supports, and adjustment to college life among nursing students. A convenience sample of 266 students in two colleges participated in the study. Data were analyzed using t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple stepwise regression. The mean score for adjustment to college life was above average. The mean score for adjustment to college life differed significantly according to students' reasons for applying to college and perceived health status. Adjustment to college life significantly correlated with anger expression and social supports. Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that anger expression (Anger-Out, Anger-In, and Anger-Control), social supports, and perceived health status explained 27.1% of the variance in adjustment to college life. The study findings suggest that interventions intended to promote nursing students' adjustment to college life should focus on improving anger management, social supports, and perceived health status.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.99-112
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• 2019

The landscape of the education market is changing. As part of efforts to deal with the decrease of a school-age population in Korea, Korean universities and colleges are endeavoring to attract foreign students. Chinese students, the largest share of foreign university students in Korea, are becoming an important element at Korean universities and colleges. Chinese students face various kinds of difficulties while trying to cope with new environments in the country. This study aims to analyze the impact of academic factors and psychological factors of Chinese students on the level of adaptation to university life and their satisfaction with it. Data on 128 Chinese students attending D University located in Busan were collected and a path analysis was conducted using partial least squares (PLS) regression. Research results are as follows. First, professors as an academic factor and the level of interest of university staff have significant impact on the level of adaptation to university life while Korean language proficiency does not have significant impact on the level of adaptation to university life. Second, homesickness as a psychological factor is correlated to the level of adaptation to university life with significance while acculturative stress is not correlated to it. Third, the level of adaptation to university life is correlated to the level of satisfaction with university life. Based on these findings, the significance, limitations and future directions of this study are discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.327-337
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to identify the levels and to analyze their correlations of decision-making-competency, adjustment to college life, satisfaction to college life in freshmen. The subjects were 325 freshmen. Data were collected through structured questionnaire from September to October, 2009, and analyzed with SPSS 17.0. The results of this study were as follows: decision-making-competency of college freshmen was $61.77{\pm}7.70$, adjusting to college life was $60.97{\pm}8.94$, and satisfaction to college life was $57.97{\pm}10.80$. Relationships between adjusting to college life and decision-making-competency in college freshmen (r=.159, p<.001), between decision-making-competency and satisfaction to college life (r=.121, p<.05), between adjustment to college life and satisfaction to college life (r=.543, p<.001) showed a statistically significant positive correlations. These results will be used for developing programs for the college freshmen in adjusting to college life and student dropout prevention.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.433-442
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• 2018

This study investigated factors affected to adjustment of college life character, interpersonal personal relationships of total 220 health-related college in G-city. This study was conducted by a self-report type survey between August 1 and December 30 in 2017, according to the findings, character level is aver. 3.49(1-5 score), interpersonal relationship aver. 3.40(1-5)score, adjustment to college life aver. 3.33(1-5)score were showed medium level, The relation between character, interpersonal relationship(r=.62, p<.001), adjustment to college life, character(r=.62, p<.001), adjustment of college life, interpersonal relations(r=.80, p<.001), Major satisfaction and adjustment of college life(r=-.32, p<.001) showed a significantly correlation of medium level. With improved personal relationships and higher behavior factor of level of character college adjustment to college life of these factors is 65%(F=102.97). The results reveals to develop program interpersonal relationship and character of college students in oder to improve adjustment process to college life.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.815-824
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• 2021

Purpose: This study was to identify the degree of academic stress, college life Adjustment, and social support perceived by nursing students, and to identify the mediating effect of social support between academic stress and college life Adjustment. The participants were 248 nursing college students who have experience in field practice at 4 universities in G metropolitan city. Data analysis was analyzed using SPSS 24.0 as Descriptive statistics, Independent-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson's correction, and Bootstrapping. Results: The study found 2.68 points for academic stress, 4.11 points for social support, and 3.5 points for college life adjustment. Academic stress was negative correlation with social support and Adjustment to college life, social support was positive correlation with Adjustment to college life. As a result of the analysis by applying the mediating effect verification model 4, first, academic stress had a significant negative effect on social support, second, academic stress had a negative effect on college life adjustment, and social support had a positive effect on college life adjustment. Third, the analysis of the total, direct, and indirect effects of academic stress and social support on college life adjustment showed that they were all significant. In conclusion, it has been found that social support has a partially controlled mediating effect between academic stress and college life adjustment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.506-516
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of perceived parental attachment and self-differentiation on the adjustment to college life For this study, we used research data about the adjustment to college life, perceived parental attachment and self-differentiation which were collected from 271 university students live in Busan. We carried out correlation analysis to see the relationship between perceived parental attachment, self-differentiation and the adjustment to college life. Also, we carried out stepwise multiple regression to predict the most influential variable in college life. Results of this study were as follows. First, perceived parental attachment, and self-differentiation have a meaningful positive relationship with college life. Second, attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, family projection, and cognitive and emotional functioning have more effects on the adjustment to college. Especially attachment avoidance affects college life more than others. These results show the importance of a wide variety of policy research to develope peer support program and counseling for a better school life on schools, classes, counseling centers.