• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.17-27
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• 2004

This study investigated the relationships among college students' internalizing/externalizing problems, parent-child communication, and college adjustment. The participants were 281 freshmen and sophomores (103 males and 178 females) from a university in Gyeongbuk Province. A self-report survey questionnaire was used to measure parent-child communication, adjustment to college life, and the student's internalizing/externalizing problems. Data were analyzed by t-test, and single and multiple regressions. The results were as follows: (1) The college students' communication with parents was negatively associated with their internalizing/externalizing problems. (2) The college students' communication with parents was positively associated with adjustment to college life. (3) The students' adjustment to college life was negatively associated with their internalizing/externalizing problems. (4) The college students' communication with parents partly or fully exerted indirect effects on the students' internalizing/externalizing problems, mediated by their adjustment to college life.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.580-590
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parental attachment on anxiety of Chinese students in Korea as well as the role of the mediating in the adjustment of college life. This study investigates the Chinese students in Seoul in 4-year colleges. And through SPSS 18.0 this study has done. The results as follows: first, the age, education background, the communication between college students and their parents, the sense of trust, academic adjustment, social adjustment, personal emotional adjustment, college environment adjustment and anxiety were negatively correlated. And alienation is positively correlated with anxiety. Second, the factor analysis of parents attachment in this study, the trust and the adjustment of college life have an impact on academic adjustment and personal emotional adjustment, and the academic adjustment and the personal emotional adjustment also has a certain impact on anxiety. Third, the results indicate that the mediating effect of college life adjustment is statistically significant on the relationship of cognized parental attachment and anxiety. At the same time, it is also proved that in the relationship between parental attachment and anxiety, the adjustment of college life has been the role of the intermediary.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to identify the influencing factors of college adjustment in nursing students. A quantitative descriptive design was used to study 400 nursing students in Busan and Ulsan, recruited from May 1 to 30, 2011. The instruments used were the clinical stress scale, stress coping scale and college adjustment problem checklist. The data were analysed SPSS program, using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, and simultaneous multiple regression. Findings of the study can be summarized as follows; First, the average of clinical stress was 3.68 points, the problem-solving coping was 2.85 points, the emotional-focused coping was 2.48 points, and college adjustment was 3.03 points. Second, The correlation of the clinical stress and college adjustment relations showed negative correlation in all areas. The correlation of problem-solving and emotional-focused coping and college adjustment showed positive correlation. Third, The significant predictors of college adjustment were satisfaction in major, psychological factors, problem-solving coping, perceived health status, emotional-focused coping, knowledge, skills, assignment/reports. These variables showed explanatory power of 43.2%. The study suggested to help reduce clinical stress and to strengthen problem-solving coping for college adjustment in nursing students.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.261-268
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the mediating effects of self-efficacy between academic stress and college adjustment in first year nursing students. Method: Data were collected from 396 first year nursing students from 3 junior colleges and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations and structural equation model (SEM) with PASW 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 programs. Results: There was a negative relationship between academic stress and college adjustment but a positive relationship between self-efficacy and college adjustment. There was a partial mediating effect of self-efficacy between academic stress and college adjustment. Conclusion: The results indicate a need to develop programs that effectively promote the self-efficacy of first year nursing students to decrease academic stress and maximize college adjustment. Further studies are needed in which other factors that could affect college adjustment are examined.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.127-138
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• 2000

Theis study examined relationship between college student attachment to parents and two broad indices of adolescent adaptation -selfe-esteem and adjustment to college. Also the association of parental attachment bonds to college adjustment would be mediated by self-esteem was examined in this study. Participants included 381 college students(176 men 205 women) As expected parental attachment was positively related to self-esteem and college adjustment. gender of parent differences emerged in which attachment to father was a more important predictor of college adjustment than was attachment to mother. Self-esteem played a mediating role in relation between parental attachment and college adjustment, Furthermore self-esteem was a most significant predictor of college adjustment .

• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.424-432
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between nursing professionalism, academic emotional regulation, and college life adjustment level and to identify the influence of nursing professionalism and academic emotional regulation on college life adjustment. Methods: Data collection was conducted with 142 junior and senior nursing college students using structured self-reported questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis using SPSS 22.0. Results: There was a positive correlation between nursing professionalism, academic emotional adjustment, and college life adjustment. The significant predictors of overall college life adjustment were major satisfaction, nursing professionalism, and academic emotional regulation. The significant predictors of clinical practice adjustment were gender, major satisfaction, and nursing professionalism. Conclusion: When developing a program to improve college life adjustment in nursing college students, it is necessary to find ways to improve nursing professionalism and academic emotional regulation as well as major satisfaction.

• Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.11-22
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of college sport club participants' ego-resilience on the college adjustment. Research design, data, and methodology: To accomplish the purpose, 360 participants were sampled by means stratified cluster random sampling method. Only 317 questionnaires were statistically processed, while 43 questionnaires were excluded because their respondents failed to complete instrument and judged insincere in filling out questionnaire. To analyze the data collected, statistical techniques, such as descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, independent-sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis were used, and as for difference verification between individual groups in relation to significant results, Duncan's multiple range was conducted. Results: The following results have been drawn out via hypothesis test. First. the background variable of the college sport club participants of was proved to affect the degree of their ego-resilience on the college adjustment. Specifically, their period of participation, frequency of participation and expenses made a statistically meaningful. Second, the college sport club participants of ego-resilience were proved to affect the college adjustment. Academic adjustment, social adjustment, personal-emotional adjustment and institutional attachment made a statistically meaning-full difference. Conclusions: The findings indicate the function of sport club participants' ego-resilience in assisting their adjustment.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.233-239
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• 2005

This study was conducted to investigate how much influence home environment and satisfaction degree with a undergraduate major have on female students' college adjustment. For this purpose, 190 undergraduate females participated in and completed all measures, and we analysed the data with SPSS computer programs. The results of this study are as follows: First, home environment and college adjustment have a positive correlation. Also, the students' satisfaction degree with their majors and college adjustment are positively correlated. Second, their satisfaction degree with a major was found to be different according to what year they are in. Third, the students' college adjustment was found to be different according to the satisfaction degree with their majors. Fourth, the female undergraduates' college adjustment was found to be different according to their home environment.

• The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.234-243
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the factor affecting adjustment of freshmen nursing students to college life. Method: The data were collected from questionnaires filled out by 265 nursing students six schools from all parts of the country from May 19 to June 4, 2010. Data was analyzed by the SPSS (frequency, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis) program. Results: A positive correlation was found for college adjustment with psychological well-being, coping and mother attachment. The strongest predictor of college adjustment was an psychological well-being. In addition psychological well-being, coping, and contact frequency for interview with professor accounted for 39.2% of variance in college adjustment. Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that development of psychological well-being and coping in nursing students is important to college adjustment. Further research in improving psychological well-being and coping is warranted.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.129-136
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a smartphone addiction affected adjustment to college life and the moderating effects of impulsivity in the relations between smartphone addiction and adjustment to college life. For this, it conducted the questionnaire with 348 college students who showed higher use of smartphone and analyzed the data from the questionnaire. The results of the analysis are as follows. It was found that smartphone addiction had significant influences on the adjustment to college life. As a result of examining the moderating effects of impulsivity in the relations between smartphone addiction and adjustment to college life, there were the moderating effects of impulsivity. This study was available in giving useful suggestions to prevent smartphone addiction and help college students adjust to their college life through impulsivity control.