Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Education
A Comparison Of Combat Veterans And Non-Combat Veteran's Perceptions Of Adjustment To College, Cynthia Louise Lawrence
A Comparison Of Combat Veterans And Non-Combat Veteran's Perceptions Of Adjustment To College, Cynthia Louise Lawrence
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, causal-comparative, ex post facto study was to examine the differences in perceptions between combat veterans and veterans’ adjustment to college based on the factors of belonging, social support, and student stress from the Veteran Adjustment to college scale. This study was important in order to determine how veterans adjust to college in order to attain degrees. This quantitative casual-comparative ex post facto design worked well due to the use of archival data, the variables could be organized into experimental groups; and the data was collected with a validated survey instrument. A MANOVA was used …