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Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program
This randomized controlled trial examined the impact of The Connection Project, an experiential, relationship‐focused intervention designed to improve school belongingness and decrease symptoms of depression and loneliness among new college students. Participants were 438 first‐year and transfer stu...
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9666641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35575603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12601 |
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author | Costello, Meghan A. Nagel, Alison G. Hunt, Gabrielle L. Rivens, Ariana J. Hazelwood, Olivia A. Pettit, Corey Allen, Joseph P. |
author_facet | Costello, Meghan A. Nagel, Alison G. Hunt, Gabrielle L. Rivens, Ariana J. Hazelwood, Olivia A. Pettit, Corey Allen, Joseph P. |
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description | This randomized controlled trial examined the impact of The Connection Project, an experiential, relationship‐focused intervention designed to improve school belongingness and decrease symptoms of depression and loneliness among new college students. Participants were 438 first‐year and transfer students (232 treatment, 206 waitlist‐control) at a medium‐sized, 4years, predominantly White public university in the Southeastern United States. At postintervention, the treatment group reported significant relative increases in school belonging and significant relative reductions in levels of loneliness and depressive symptoms in comparison to waitlist‐controls. Program effects were stronger for students from marginalized racial or ethnic backgrounds, students from lower socioeconomic status households, and transfer students. Results are interpreted as suggesting the utility of experiential, peer‐support prevention programming to promote college students' well‐being, particularly college students who hold identities that are traditionally disadvantaged in this context. |
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spelling | pubmed-96666412022-12-08 Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program Costello, Meghan A. Nagel, Alison G. Hunt, Gabrielle L. Rivens, Ariana J. Hazelwood, Olivia A. Pettit, Corey Allen, Joseph P. Am J Community Psychol Original Articles This randomized controlled trial examined the impact of The Connection Project, an experiential, relationship‐focused intervention designed to improve school belongingness and decrease symptoms of depression and loneliness among new college students. Participants were 438 first‐year and transfer students (232 treatment, 206 waitlist‐control) at a medium‐sized, 4years, predominantly White public university in the Southeastern United States. At postintervention, the treatment group reported significant relative increases in school belonging and significant relative reductions in levels of loneliness and depressive symptoms in comparison to waitlist‐controls. Program effects were stronger for students from marginalized racial or ethnic backgrounds, students from lower socioeconomic status households, and transfer students. Results are interpreted as suggesting the utility of experiential, peer‐support prevention programming to promote college students' well‐being, particularly college students who hold identities that are traditionally disadvantaged in this context. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-05-16 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9666641/ /pubmed/35575603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12601 Text en © 2022 The Authors. American Journal of Community Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Community Research and Action. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Costello, Meghan A. Nagel, Alison G. Hunt, Gabrielle L. Rivens, Ariana J. Hazelwood, Olivia A. Pettit, Corey Allen, Joseph P. Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program |
title | Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program |
title_full | Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program |
title_fullStr | Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program |
title_full_unstemmed | Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program |
title_short | Facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: Evaluation of an experiential group program |
title_sort | facilitating connection to enhance college student well‐being: evaluation of an experiential group program |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9666641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35575603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12601 |
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