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Social Support Among Undergraduate Students: Measure Development And Validation, Heather M. Blizzard
Social Support Among Undergraduate Students: Measure Development And Validation, Heather M. Blizzard
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Being born into circumstances of low-income, having a racial minority status, and/or non-college educated families dwindle the opportunities for many students to obtain a college degree (Cox, 2016; Engle & Tinto, 2008; Jenkins et al., 2013). While many institutions of higher education have diligently worked to develop programs geared towards attending the educational inequalities among diverse student populations, there is still a great need for programs centered on the inequalities surrounding social support (Cox, 2016; Ward et al., 2012; Soria & Stebleton, 2012).
The purpose of this study was to develop and assess a measure to examine perceived social support …