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Getting To The Heart Of Our Students: First-Year Students And Their Wellness, Shannon Ford
Getting To The Heart Of Our Students: First-Year Students And Their Wellness, Shannon Ford
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Wellness is a topic everyone is talking about these days. While a keyword among conversations, wellness within literature is not broken down but simply a theme. Therefore, I wanted to gain a better understanding of how students across college campuses view and perceive their personal wellness. To do this, I conducted a phenomenological mixed methods study, which explored how first-year students perceive wellness.
Through administering the 36-question Perceived Wellness Inventory survey (Adams, Bezner & Steinhardt, 1997) and conducting a focus group, three themes emerged: behaviors versus knowledge, feelings, and support. These three themes supported existent wellness literature and added areas …