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PORTO, Ana Maria da Silva  y  SOARES, Adriana Benevides. Expectations and college adjustment in college students. Psicol. teor. prat. [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.1, pp. 208-219. ISSN 1516-3687.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/1980-6906/psicologia.v19n1p208-219.

The aim of this study was to identify and compare expectations and the college adjustment among the freshmen and senior students and the impact of expectations on adaptation. The sample was 400 college students, being 151 men and 249 women, in the age range of 18 through 59 years old, from public and private universities in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who answered the Questionnaire on Academic Involvement, versions A and B, regarding expectations and behaviors, and the Questionnaire on Academic Experiences, abridged version. Student's t-test has been used to compare the groups and the Cohen's d test to calculate the effect size. In order to evaluate the impact of the academic expectative on the adaptation to the university, linear regression analysis has been performed. The results have indicated differences, but with low magnitude for the expectations and adaptation of freshmen and senior students, and also, that the academic expectations of college students are predictors of college students' adjustment to the University.

Palabras clave : college students; academic expectations; college adjustment; freshmen students; senior students.

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