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This study deals with the adjustment problems of college women in an Arab university (BUC). It tries to examine these problems within the following areas: dating, academic concerns, personal concerns and relations with family and society.

Emerging adults with chronic medical conditions must navigate repeated decisions about disclosure as they begin to manage their condition more independently. In this mixed-methods study, college students with chronic medical conditions ( N = 25) provided a narrative of a disclosure decision-making experience and completed measures of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, and illness acceptance. Qualitative analysis investigated contexts for disclosure decisions and overall attitudes toward disclosure expressed. Decisions regarding disclosure occurred with university personnel, friends and peers, and at work. Three disclosure attitudes were identified: proactive, open, and reactive. Exploratory quantitative analysis revealed that college students with reactive attitudes toward disclosure reported lower life satisfaction, well-being, and illness acceptance than peers with open or proactive attitudes. Results demonstrate the unique contexts of disclosure faced by emerging adults with chronic conditions and suggest distinct approaches to disclosure are associated with well-being in different ways. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Abstract

Aims
Past research suggests that people report a greater desire to consume alcohol when they experience social threat—or threats to their social selves, such as social exclusion. Nevertheless, experimental research on the role of social threat in alcohol consumption is limited. The present study examined the causal relationship between social threat and wine consumption.


Methods
Undergraduate students (N = 83; Mage = 21.8 years old, SDage = 1.62 years old; 72.3% women; 61.4% Latinx/Hispanic) participated in a study under the pretense that they were in a focus group gauging students' opinions of a bar being constructed at their university. During the study, participants and two confederate researchers completed a group activity in which they selected design elements for the bar. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the social threat condition, confederates rejected participants' design choices and socially excluded them during a follow-up task. In the social acceptance condition, confederates supported participants' choices and did not socially exclude them. All participants then completed a wine taste test.


Results
Contrary to predictions, an independent-samples t-test revealed that participants who experienced social threat consumed significantly less wine than those who were socially accepted, t(81) = −2.22, P = 0.03, d = −0.49. Furthermore, a linear regression test revealed that this effect persisted even when controlling for typical alcohol-consumption behavior, b = 56.09, t = −2.50, P = 0.02, d = −0.61.


Conclusion
The relationship between social threat and alcohol consumption may be more nuanced than anticipated. Discussion centers around two potential moderators including positive affect and identity.

In 2 experiments we investigated the effectiveness of creating mandalas for reducing social anxiety in college students. In Experiment 1 we measured social anxiety in a sample of 71 college students using the Interaction Anxiety Scale, comparing a group who created a mandala with a
group who engaged in free drawing. The results indicated that creating a mandala reduced social anxiety more than free drawing did. In Experiment 2 we used the Interaction Anxiety Scale and measured electrodermal activity, which is an important physiological index of anxiety, to further compare
social anxiety changes between creating a mandala and drawing within a square in a sample of 75 college students. We found that creating a mandala was more effective for reducing electrodermal activity and social anxiety scores than was drawing within a square. These findings indicate that
creating mandalas can be used to relieve and treat social anxiety.

ABSTRACT Undergraduate college student activism has remained the essence and an integral part of intellectual development process in higher education since the inception of higher education institutions in the United States (Braungart & Braungart, 1990; Ellsworth & Burns, 1970/2009). Historically, students protested bad living conditions on their campuses and revolted for more freedom from the prevailing religious orthodoxy of the time (Ellsworth & Burns, 1970/2009). The historic relationship between college and student activism, though differently expressed throughout these years, revolved around mobilization of progressive forces for the purpose of seeking transformative changes in society. Through time, college students have become more politicized by the overall socio-economic and political power relations within the society outside of their campuses (Crossley, 2008). Literature reviews and scholarly publications around undergraduate college student activism in social justice leadership indicate the continuum that college students have embarked on changing the social disequilibrium as of their inquisitive and critical assessment of the social predicaments (Dominguez, 2009; Green, 2016). Although, organizing on higher education premises for social justice had been addressed, racial justice activism and the predicaments of the marginalized was not so distinctively addressed up until the 1960s Civils Rights era movements. Therefore, this phenomenological case study intended to explore what informed undergraduate college student activism, particularly on the issue of racial justice by citing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement with a localized grassroot network tasked with building local power to lead resistance movements against the violence inflicted on Black citizens. An array of issues ranging from how higher education professionals cope with student protests on campus and the theoretical approaches identified and discussed key elements of college student intellectual development through civic engagement. The fact that college activism has been becoming an alternative platform of political engagement to the traditional party politics for undergraduate college students and students' intellectual development in social justice leadership coupled with the changing dynamics of organizing on campus as a result of the cyber media platform demands more research for so that higher education professionals could have adequate awareness and a positive grip on the matters pertaining to student civic engagement. Keywords: College, student, activism, protests, Higher education, social justice, social movements, leadership, BLM, racial justice, allyship, intellectual development. Politicizing effects.

Objective: This study explores how various measures, ranging from assimilation, to human capital, to family capital, and Holland's career-development theories, affect Asian-American students' choice of college majors. To test our hypotheses, we examine choice of college major using a unique measure based on the early earning potential of a large number of specific majors. Methods: Our data come from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS88). We use the Heckman selection approach to adjust for the nonrandom selection of college attendance and choice of college majors. Results: The findings of the study show little difference between Asian men and white men. On the other hand, there are significant differences among women. Conclusions: Chinese, Filipino, and Southeast Asian women are all more likely to choose more lucrative college majors than white women, controlling for all the other factors. Interestingly, effects of our assimilation, psychological, and some of the family capital measures are quite different for men than for women. (Original abstract)