It is with great regret that we have to record the death of Dr. F. J. A. Mayes, who died suddenly on Sunday, 3rd September, after a long period of invalidism. Mayes was born in 1875, and after spending his school days at Bath entered as a student at University College Hospital. Immediately after qualifying he went out to the South African War. While on service there he contracted typhoid fever ...

Adjustment refers to balance or harmony between the demands made on the organism by the environment and organisms functioning to deal with such demands. It is the outcome of efforts to deal with our environmental, biological, physical and social demands. When resources are limited and one fails to utilize the resources to maintain the balance it leads to maladjustment. Pursuing a college educat...

The Poverty-Related Diseases College was a virtual African-European college and network that connected young African and European biomedical scientists working on poverty-related diseases. The aim of the Poverty-Related Diseases College was to build sustainable scientific capacity and international networks in poverty-related biomedical research in the context of the development of Africa. The ...

OBJECTIVE Researchers have previously reported that law students and medical students experience significant distress during their first year. The authors suspected that freshmen undergraduates might experience similar distress in their transition to college. PARTICIPANTS They surveyed 242 undergraduate freshmen at the beginning and end of their first year. METHODS The authors asked partici...

This article shows the results of a study of the cyberbullying and cyberstalking experiences of students at a public liberal arts college. A survey was administered online to sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students at the college. The prevalence rates were 10% for cyberbullying and 9% for cyberstalking, shown in the sample of 471 respondents. Traditional college students under 25 ye...

Trait anxiety is a personality characteristic that describes the tendency to feel anxious across a variety of situations, while state anxiety refers to the anxiety experienced in a specific situation (Cox, 2007). Previous research has suggested that high trait anxious individuals experience more situation-specific state anxiety (Horikawa & Yagi, 2012). Additionally, prior research has indicated...

Despite speculation that peers' alcohol-related content on social media sites (SMS) may influence the alcohol use behaviors of SMS frequenting college students, this relationship has not been investigated longitudinally. The current prospective study assesses the relationship between exposure to peers' alcohol-related SMS content and later-drinking among first-year college students. Among 408 f...

The continuity and change of the needs and evaluations of the college environment and person-environment fit (PE fit) with the college environment were studied in a 4-year longitudinal study of students (N = 191). Perceptions of the environment changed more dramatically than corresponding self-perceived needs. PE fit demonstrated moderate levels of consistency over the 4-year span, but no signi...