The impact of self-concept and college involvement on the first-year success of medical students in China.
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract
; 20(1): 163-79, 2015 Mar.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-24906461
ABSTRACT
Students' first-year academic success plays a critical role on their overall development in college, which implies the need to concentrate on identifying ways to improve students' first-year academic success. Different from most research on the subject, this study attempted to combine the sociological perspective of college impact with a psychological perspective to synthetically explore the causal relationship of specific types of self-concept and college involvement with academic success of medical students. A longitudinal study was conducted using 519 matriculates at a medical university in mainland China. We conducted the Cooperative Institutional Research Program freshmen survey and the Your First College Year survey to collect data of the pre-college and college academic and social self-concept, college involvement components, and some input characteristics. The academic success was measured by the first-year grade point average. A pathway analysis was conducted and showed the following results. Having high academic self-concept, being engaged in class and putting effort in homework or study directly contributes to increasing college achievement. Students' pre-college achievement and self-concept, faculty interaction, and homework involvement positively affected students' college academic self-concept development, which indirectly improved average grade point. These findings contribute to our understanding of a student's ability to interact with his or her collegiate environment and to experience academic success.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Autoimagem
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Logro
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Estudantes de Medicina
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Educação de Graduação em Medicina
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract
Assunto da revista:
EDUCACAO
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
China