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From Service to Studies: Resilience and College Adjustment in Student Service Members/Veterans

Carbaugh, Brittany A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9465-4181
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1598643468010451

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education, Cleveland State University, College of Education and Human Services.
Nearly one million military service members are enrolled in institutions of higher education, 800,000 of whom are using the Post 9/11 GI Bill. These individuals bring a distinct set of interpersonal and intrapersonal characteristics with them to college campuses, yet there is a paucity of research exploring the factors related to their college adjustment. The literature that exists has focused on this population’s challenges and pathology. College adjustment is understood as the way in which individuals acclimate to the new environment and culture of academia. Resilience is considered to be a function of personal and environmental characteristics that explain why some people flourish after trauma and others do not. The “healthy warrior effect” suggests that student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs) have lower vulnerability to stress in college because of their maturity and life experiences. Therefore, in this quantitative study, I used a strengths-based, positive psychology perspective to understand the college adjustment of SSM/Vs. I explored the effects of mental health diagnoses on adjustment as mediated by resilience. A final sample of 123 participants was derived from both Amazon’s MTURK and 10 universities across the United States. Participants were 18+ years of age, identified as current or former military service members, and were current undergraduate or graduate students. Moderation analysis assessed whether the relationship between resilience and college adjustment differed depending on: 1) SSM/V combat exposure; and 2) military affiliation status (e.g. veteran versus National Guard/Reserve member). Mediation analysis examined whether resilience mediated the relationship between PTSD, depression, and anxiety diagnoses and college adjustment. Support was found for all but one hypothesis. Implications for practice and research as well as the strengths and limitations of the study will be discussed.
Julia Phillips, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael Horvath, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kelly Yu-Hsin Liao, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
144 p.
Clinical Psychology; Counseling Psychology; Psychology
veterans; student veterans; student service members; SSM-V; college; military service members; adjustment; college adjustment; resilience; positive psychology; resiliency; higher education; resilience skill building; United States; US Veterans; USA

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  • Carbaugh, B. A. (2020). From Service to Studies: Resilience and College Adjustment in Student Service Members/Veterans [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1598643468010451

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Carbaugh, Brittany. From Service to Studies: Resilience and College Adjustment in Student Service Members/Veterans . 2020. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1598643468010451.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Carbaugh, Brittany. "From Service to Studies: Resilience and College Adjustment in Student Service Members/Veterans ." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1598643468010451

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