The Role of Facebook in Fostering Transfer Student Integration

Nehls, Kimberly; Smith, Brandy D.

doi:10.1515/jsarp-2014-0040

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“…These people addicted to SNS are called as "heavy users". Many studies (Barnes & Laird, 2012;Carroll & Kirkpatrick, 2011;Gok, 2015;Nehls & Smith, 2014;O'Keeffe & Pearson, 2011) were conducted to determine the positive and negative effects of social networking sites. Schill (2011) reported that social media is the negative impacts (anxiety, behavioral changes, mental health problems, psychological effect, severe loss of personal productivity, stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, etc.)…”

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The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Students’ Studying and Habits

Gok

2015

IJRES

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Social media is important to communicate with people, share/ask information, and follow/evaluate/interpret the events, etc. for everyone at the present time. The positive and negative effects of social networking sites on students' studying and habits were examined in this research. The study was conducted on 220 students in vocational school of higher education. The data were collected with the help of a questionnaire designed for gathering the students' opinions about the digital technologies and social media. The results revealed that the digital technologies and social networking sites have negative impact on students' studying and habits. Some suggestions related to the findings were presented in the study.

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The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Students’ Studying and Habits

Gok

2015

IJRES

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“…With the general availability of social media (e.g., Facebook), college students have access to increasing numbers of friends and acquaintances (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007). Such social media can help transfer students integrate more successfully socially into a receiving university (Nehls & Smith, 2014). Students who perceive higher PSP of a UCC may serve as "good-will ambassadors" for a university, i.e., be more likely to recommend the university to others.…”

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Correlates of a University Counseling Center’s Perceived Service Promptness

Blau

DeMaria

DiMino

2017

JEDP

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The overall goal of this study was to explore the usefulness of a Perceived Service Promptness (PSP) measure for University Counseling Centers (UCCs). As UCCs compete for university resources, helping a client as quickly as possible or PSP can help to support a UCC's documented ability to meet increasing client demands. Since no prior empirical research was found measuring PSP at a UCC, a four-item measure, adapted from a more general quality of service scale, was used. From August 2014 to May 2016, one hundred and seventeen non-urgent undergraduate students seeking counseling services filled out an online survey measuring demographics, client perceptions, wait measures, PSP and recommending the university. Confirmatory factor analysis and scale reliability data psychometrically supported the PSP scale. Correlational analyses showed that both wait time and wait bother experience were each significantly negatively related to PSP. However, hierarchical regression analyses showed that wait bother experience, but not wait time, significantly explained PSP beyond prior controlled-for demographic and client perception variables. In addition, PSP positively explained recommending the university beyond demographic, client perception and wait measures. Research limitations and future research issues are discussed.

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“…The environment in which the posts were made is most likely different to that which the students would post in today. Incoming students may be using different social media or different pages within Facebook (Nehls and Smith 2014). As such, our study can only be considered as examining one three-month period of time on a dynamic form of social media.…”

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“…Martinez-Alemán and Wartman (2008, 42) indicated, 'Social networking sites like Facebook are for this generation of college and university students a fundamental component of their lived experiences, and an important element of the phenomenology of campus culture' . The potential of Facebook for helping students connect, communicate and affiliate with their campuses also highlights its usefulness (Davis et al 2015;Ghosh, Chawla, & Mallott, 2012;Nehls and Smith 2014;Russell, Nazione, and Smith 2012).…”

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Facebook, crowdsourcing and the transition to college

Nehls

Livengood

2017

Journal of Further and Higher Education

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a department of educational Psychology and higher education, university of nevada, las Vegas, nV, uSa; b global education & career development, Massachusetts institute of technology, cambridge, Ma, uSa ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of how college students connect online prior to their first year. Before students ever set foot on a college campus, they are making friends, joining clubs, locating activities, finding roommates and discussing future student activities all through the social network site, Facebook. Anticipatory socialisation theory frames this research to focus on the social, academic and career aspects of the transition. A case study approach and content analysis methodology sought to better understand frequent topics and themes for pre-college students. The primary foci of the pre-college Facebook interactions were connectivity and commonality among new students. An unintended finding was the discovery of crowdsourcing on post-secondary social media sites. Crowdsourcing taps into the collective intelligence of the public to complete tasks that an organisation would normally either perform itself or contract to a third-party provider; hence, outsourcing to a crowd. In this case, the crowd is comprised of pre-college students about to start their first year of post-secondary education. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The Role of Facebook in Fostering Transfer Student Integration

Cited by 15 publications

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The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Students’ Studying and Habits

The Effects of Social Networking Sites on Students’ Studying and Habits

Correlates of a University Counseling Center’s Perceived Service Promptness

Facebook, crowdsourcing and the transition to college

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