An Examination of Factors Related to College Adaptation of Emerging Adults
Project no. 1083 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
This study was conducted in order to examine the effects of individuation-separation process, on adaptation to college among Turkish emerging adulthoods. Adaptation is the process by which an individual adapts himself/herself to changing environmental conditions. College life adaptation includes meeting students' academic demands and integrating the college into the social environment. It is known that many factors influence the adaptation to college. Within the scope of this research, it has been tried to determine these effective factors regarding the relations between the separation-individuation process. The sample of the study consisted of 551 students (386 females and 165 males) between the ages of 18 and 26. In the study, their levels of individuation were evaluated through “Individuation Test for Emerging Adults – Short Form (ITEA-S)” and their adaptation the college was evaluated through “The Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ)”. The findings of the research showed that the adaptation to college is significantly correlated with individuation sub-dimension. In addition, it has been observed that proportions of explained variance by the individuation sub-dimensions in regression analyses to academic adjustment, social adjustment, personal–emotional adjustment and institutional attachment are 8%, 10%, 9% and 11%, respectively. Findings show that the relationship between individuation and adaptation college in emerging adulthood needs to be explained by more comprehensive and longitudinal investigations. It is suggested that future studies should intend to evaluating preventive programs to examine individuation and adapation to college during emerging adulthood which would provide enriched findings.