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William & Mary

1990

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The Personal Need Systems Of College Students: An Analysis Of The Poorly Adjusted Freshman, Kenneth Michael Saad Jan 1990

The Personal Need Systems Of College Students: An Analysis Of The Poorly Adjusted Freshman, Kenneth Michael Saad

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This study compared the personal need systems of college students who were failing academically, charged with discipline violation, or psychologically troubled with those of a control group with no record of such problems. The Picture Identification (PIT) was mailed to the 1986 and 1987 entering freshmen classes at the College of William and Mary. From the 1986 class, 531 students completed the PIT, and from the 1987 class, 544 students completed the PIT. The subjects were classified by type of problem and gender. The Female Discipline Group was too small for statistical analysis and was omitted from the report. The …