Emotional Adjustment In College Essay

Shafer (1961) defines adjustment as-“the process by which a living organism maintains a balance between its needs and the circumstances that influence the satisfaction of these needs”. (Raju and Rahamtulla 2007). When student first arrives to university they are exposed to a new environment and often have to undergo changes to survive the more vigorous demands of university. Petersen et al. (2009) found that students who felt a sense of belonging at university, and were well-adjusted to the academic and personal/emotional demands of the university, achieved higher academic grades at the end of their first academic year. Therefore, when referring to how well a student is adjusting to university one must consider the academic, social and emotional adjustment. (Sevinc & Gizir, 2014). Hence one can reason that a well-adjusted student is a person whose academic, social and personal-emotional needs are being meet. If these specifications are not fulfilled students often have a negative experience in university, which can lead to the student dropping out or doing very poorly. (Thurber & Walton, 2012).Those responsible for the adjustment the student include the student themselves, their …show more content…
Shyness and fear of disapproval often prevent students from making the new relationships and seeking out coping activities set by the university needed to prevent homesickness and loneliness, which Thuber and Walton (2012) say will negatively impact a student’s adjustment to university. The results of Sevince and Gezir (2014) research also shows that students who had a harder time adjusting to university were those who practice avoidance coping. Avoidance coping is the dodging of coping method, which causes the student to avoid relationships and/or social