Despite near universal acceptance in the value of higher education for individuals and society, college persistence rates in 4‐year and community colleges are low. Only 57% of students who began college at a 4–year institution in 2001 had completed a bachelor's degree by 2007, and only 28% of community college students who started school in 2005 had completed a degree 4 years later (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011). To address this problem, this paper identified 3 goals. The first was to review the extant literature on persistence in higher education. The second was to develop a working model of persistence informed by our literature review. This resulted in a model centered on 3 basic categories of variables: those that put you on track towards persistence, those that push you off track, and those that keep you on track. The final goal was to outline a research agenda to develop student‐centered assessments informed by our model, and we conclude with a discussion of this agenda.

Two aspects of these results suggest a relationship between EI and well-being. First, the observed relationship between ability EI and psychological well-being is the largest reported in the literature to date. Second, this study is the first use of the Day Reconstruction Method to examine the relationship between well-being and EI. Results are discussed in terms of the potential for training emotion management to enhance well-being. Methodological advances for future research are also suggested.

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Abstract-Few published studies measure electronic (cyber) bullying in conjunction with traditional (i.e., verbal, physical, and relational) forms of bullying, with even fewer using multiple items to measure the constructs. These two shortcomings have resulted in decades of inconsistent findings, uncertainty amongst experts about the structure of bullying, and no universally accepted measures to examine it. This study addresses these concerns by developing a new measure of victimization and examining its construct validity in a sample of 399 ninth-grade students. Exploratory Factor Analysis provides strong evidence that victimization is indeed multifaceted with cyber victimization emerging as a separate factor, distinct from school-based forms. Although, physical and verbal victimization items cross-loaded to form a single factor (labeled direct victimization), relational victimization emerged as a separate factor, distinct from cyber and direct victimization. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed, along with how continued development of such measures may aid educational psychologists who work with victimized students regularly.Index Terms-Bullying, cyber bullying, direct bullying, relational bullying, victimization, construct validity.