Researchers have long been fascinated with the African American experience and how it affects a student's education. ... They defined educational resilience based on the current academic achievements of the students and their future academic and general expectations. ... The researchers found that a significant majority reported that they planned to attend graduate or professional school after college. The students also reported above-average results in academic self-esteem, social support from the school, and parental involvement/monitoring. ... Another benefit to education is the unders...

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Conflict of motivations is typically where self-regulation comes into play, student athletes want to participate in the social scenes of college life but also need to be concerned with health and performance. ... Self-regulation is structure which mimics the life of student athletes who live by a tight schedule set by advisors and coaches. ... Discussion Eventually, PERS will hopefully move on to another university, implementing the program to another group of student athletes. ... PERS as a program is aimed to aid in student athletes understanding the benefits appropriate sleep and recovery c...

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To better understand this occurrence, researchers attempted to observe the reaction of college students in such a situation. ... To observe the how people would behave in crisis, a group of researchers asked university students to complete surveys by themselves or in groups of three, then released smoke into the room while the participants were finishing their paperwork. Once the students reaction to the smoke were noted, participants were given an explanation about the true nature of the experiment. Due to the failure of the experimenters to fully disclose the potential dangers the students w...

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In a follow-up study of 100 Harvard students to their midlife, Vaillant (1977) found that intellectual ability was not significantly associated with any of his measures of adjustment, which included mental health, physical health, family relations, and success in work. ... The intellectually most gifted in college did not earn the most money if they became business executives, nor did they achieve the greatest recognition or productivity if they became professors. ... Students in a class on emotions and the self-concept taught by Seymour Epstein kept records of their most positive and negat...

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The studies they discuss indicate watching music videos and other media has been shown to increase adversarial sexual beliefs and have a negative effect, and also make college students have a greater acceptance of anti-social behavior after viewing media displaying similar behavior. ...

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