Tracing "Friendsickness" During the First Year of College Through Journal Writing: A Qualitative Study
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Jennifer L. Crissman Ishler
The purpose of this qualitative study was to consider “friendsickness” as experienced by 96 entering college students. As defined here, friendsickness is a challenge new students experience when they leave their established network of friends and begin college. Journal entries written by new students in first-year seminars were examined and analyzed using a phenomenological framework. Results showed that many first-semester students enrolled in firstyear seminars delayed making new friends at college, whereas second semester students in first-year seminars embraced their new college friendships. The second finding was that journal writing appeared to help students explore and understand their issue of friendsickness.
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- Understanding Retention and College Student Bodies: Differences Between Drop-Outs, Stop-Outs, Opt-Outs, and Transfer-Outs
- Pushing the Boulder Uphill: The Persistence of First-Generation College Students
- The Extent to Which Four-Year College Presidents who Previously Served as Senior Student Affairs Officers Report Having the Characteristics of Effective Presidents
- The Importance of Drawing Meaningful Conclusions from Data: A Review of the Literature with Meta-Analytic Inquiry
- Graduate Student Orientation Practices: Results from a National Survey
- Campus-Based Women's Centers: Administration, Structure, and Resources
- The Contemporary Student Center: Challenges at Metropolitan Universities
- Tracing "Friendsickness" During the First Year of College Through Journal Writing: A Qualitative Study
- In Their Own Voices: Latino Student Retention
- College Students and Academic Performance: A Case of Taking Control
- Letter from the Editors
- Table of Contents
- NASPA Journal, Spring 2004, Voume 41, Number 3
