The Importance of Resilience Education
A research study was conducted by Melissa E. DeRoiser, Ellen Frank, Victor Schwartz, and Kevin A. Leary, a panel of doctors and physicians in fields related to psychology, to explore the relationships between stress during the transition to the college life experienced by incoming freshmen and how this stress affects their lives (DeRoiser, Frank, Schwartz & Leary, 2013). The panel created a series of questionnaires via Student Curriculum on Resilience Education (SCoRE), that were completed by 644 first-year students from seven different universities across the eastern United States. The largest portion of the testing subjects were Caucasian females. The questionnaires were grouped into six different categories based on the stressors they faced. The categories included: academic behavior, time management, financial concerns, practical tasks, identity issues, and social …show more content…
al, 2013). This article formally introduces the presence of resilience and its positive effects on new students, and encourages the development of programs that explore ways to reduce the stress that most students face when transitioning to college for the first time via measures completed by actual first-years. These programs would allow students to develop resilience skills, gain a better understanding of their new environment as well as a sense of security in terms of learning new strategies to help them cope with school stressors. Research into the effectiveness of programs that target common stressors and maladaptive behaviors students experience versus simply addressing practical daily tasks like navigating the campus and common academic concerns, is necessary to further the growing study on resilience education (DeRoiser, et. al,
A research study was conducted by Melissa E. DeRoiser, Ellen Frank, Victor Schwartz, and Kevin A. Leary, a panel of doctors and physicians in fields related to psychology, to explore the relationships between stress during the transition to the college life experienced by incoming freshmen and how this stress affects their lives (DeRoiser, Frank, Schwartz & Leary, 2013). The panel created a series of questionnaires via Student Curriculum on Resilience Education (SCoRE), that were completed by 644 first-year students from seven different universities across the eastern United States. The largest portion of the testing subjects were Caucasian females. The questionnaires were grouped into six different categories based on the stressors they faced. The categories included: academic behavior, time management, financial concerns, practical tasks, identity issues, and social …show more content…
al, 2013). This article formally introduces the presence of resilience and its positive effects on new students, and encourages the development of programs that explore ways to reduce the stress that most students face when transitioning to college for the first time via measures completed by actual first-years. These programs would allow students to develop resilience skills, gain a better understanding of their new environment as well as a sense of security in terms of learning new strategies to help them cope with school stressors. Research into the effectiveness of programs that target common stressors and maladaptive behaviors students experience versus simply addressing practical daily tasks like navigating the campus and common academic concerns, is necessary to further the growing study on resilience education (DeRoiser, et. al,