The Influence of Work on College Student Development

Elling, Susan R.; Elling, Theodore W.

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“…Unsurprisingly then, work experience and internships are linked to career success factors such as expedited post-graduation job placement, employment in a role consistent with one's college major, and larger starting salary (Blau et al, 2014(Blau et al, , 2017. However, students may or may not perceive these benefits if they are engaging in part-time work during college for financial reasons, a circumstance which students believe encumbers their involvement in collegiate activities and academic achievement (Furr & Elling, 2000).…”

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Agriculture Student Perceptions of Career Success Factors: Ranking Attributes of Collegiate Experiences

Feldpausch¹,

Bir²,

Widmar³

et al. 2019

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There is an ever-imminent need for career-ready graduates from collegiate agriculture programs. Generational shifts in attitudes and background experiences of agricultural students challenge educators to maintain curricular programming which establishes a successful career trajectory for students. Students studying animal science and/or agricultural economics were surveyed to understand their perception of how collegiate curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular experiences (coursework, club participation, relevant work, international experience, advising/mentoring, college life, and professional networking) contribute to their anticipated career success. A best-worst scaling experiment was used to force respondents to make tradeoffs between the collegiate experience attributes in a manner designed to be free of scale biases. Responses were related back to additional demographical and experience/perception characteristics of respondents through various approaches. Based on their responses, students solely in a pre-veterinary Animal Science curriculum represented a particularly interesting category of students regarding their beliefs and reported experiences. Students indicated relevant work experience was overwhelmingly the most critical of the 7 factors they were asked to evaluate. Further research should investigate possible disconnects between student perceptions and reality in higher education.

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confidence: 99%

Agriculture Student Perceptions of Career Success Factors: Ranking Attributes of Collegiate Experiences

Feldpausch¹,

Bir²,

Widmar³

et al. 2019

JAE

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“…Previous studies found that working 20 hours or more per week was shown to negatively affect academic performance and lower quality student relationships (Furr & Elling, 2000;Lundberg, 2004). Thus, we consider that attending a master program, during the evening and/or weekend can interfere with the ability of the professional to detach from their work since, in some cases, they may approach experiences, while in the classroom, related with their own work.…”

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Professional work load and work-to-school conflict in working students: The mediating effect of psychological detachment from work

Andrade

2018

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In recent years there Portuguese higher education institutions have been aiming to attract more people to the educational system that are either in the labor market by offering evening and weekend graduate academic programs. Blending work and school is a demanding task and, so far, at the country level this phenomenon has received relatively little empirical attention. The purpose of the study is to build on existing work‐to-school conflict literature and to explore a possible relationship between professional work load on work-to-school conflicts among working students enrolled in a master program. Moreover we test the role of psychological detachment from work as mediator in this process. This model was tested, through path analysis, using 152 working students, 88 women and 64 men, enrolled as fulltime students in evening and weekend master programs.. The model showed an adequate fit to the data, suggesting that the influence of professional work load on work-to-school conflict is fully mediated by psychological detachment from work. These findings unveil a new perspective on working students enrolled in postgraduate school, pointing out the importance of psychological detachment from work to a better understand the impact of blending work and school. Contributions to the work-school literature, future research directions, and limitations of the study are discussed.

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“…Growth in the absolute number of students coupled with an increasing labour market participation, in particular in "marginal" jobs, may add up to a significant number of full-time equivalent jobs. As more students are employed, they face having to balance their academic requirements, extracurricular activities, and employment responsibilities to maintain their lifestyles (Elling & Elling, 2000).…”

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International Students Labour and School Attendance: Evidence from China

Kamitewoko¹

2021

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Since 2000, an increasing number of scholarship international students have been entering Chinese universities. Government scholarships provide them money each month to pay for a degree, but most of them are engaged in part-time work even if china officially doesn't allow international students to work during their studies. This Research aimed to explore the key determinants of international students labour and schooling in China and labour experience contribution to their study. We used the Labor Market Survey (SLM) conducted by LARES (Laboratory of analysis and research in economic and social research) in the year of 2019 in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Zhejiang and Shandong. The sample includes 400 scholarship students at the Bachelor, Master and PhD level. They were from different major areas, aged between 18 and 35 years old. Results from logistic regression analysis showed that developing relationship, practicing Chinese, tutor income, age, were the key factors that influence scholarship international student' work while study. The students benefited both positively and negatively from working and studying.

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The Influence of Work on College Student Development

Cited by 73 publications

References 1 publication

Agriculture Student Perceptions of Career Success Factors: Ranking Attributes of Collegiate Experiences

Agriculture Student Perceptions of Career Success Factors: Ranking Attributes of Collegiate Experiences

Professional work load and work-to-school conflict in working students: The mediating effect of psychological detachment from work

International Students Labour and School Attendance: Evidence from China

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