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Correlating hardiness with graduation persistence.

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| September 22, 2006 | Lifton, Donald; Seay, Sandra; McCarly, Nancy; Olive-Taylor, Rebecca; Seeger, Richard; Bigbee, Dalton | COPYRIGHT 2006 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

A five-campus longitudinal study of 1,432 first-year respondents found a positive correlation of students' "hardiness" with persistence to their expected '02 graduation, four years later. This capstone research's results reinforce two previous smaller studies that yielded similar outcomes. The report acquaints the reader with the hardiness construct, applies it to campus persistence efforts and outlines undergraduate retention policy ramifications inherent in such an approach. Specifically enrolling "lo-hardy" undergraduates in retention-intervention programs would provide a more efficient usage of expensive, labor-intensive retention intervention ...

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