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KMID : 0362520120140010031
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Journal of The Korean Academy of Dental Hygiene
2012 Volume.14 No. 1 p.31 ~ p.42
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A Study on Graduates’ Adaptation to College Life. - Focusing on Students of Health-related Majors at Some Two Year College in the J Area -
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Song Kyoung-Hee
Song Jung-Min
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Abstract
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This study was conducted in order to survey and compare adaptation to college life between vocational and general high school graduates among college students of health?related majors and to provide materials for guiding vocational high school graduates’ adaptation to college life and high school students’ future career. The subjects of this study were freshmen and sophomores of some two ?year colleges having healthrelated departments in the J Area, and data were collected through a survey from the 19th to 24th of September, 2011 using a self?administered questionnaire. A total of 445 questionnaires were used in analysis. Data were analyzed empirically at significance level p<.05, p<.01 and p<.001 and SPSS Ver.18.0 was used. The major results of this study were as follows. 1. With regard to difference in adaptation to college life, general high school graduates were somewhat higher than vocational high school ones in academic adaptation and satisfaction with college life. 2. When adaptation to college life was compared between male and female students, male students except some of them showed higher adaptation to college life than female ones. In both types of high school graduates, male students were higher than female ones in academic adaptation, emotional adaptation, and satisfaction with college life. This may be partially because more than half of the male students had returned after completing their military service, but this needs to be studied further. 3. When adaptation to college life was compared according to school year, among vocational high school graduates, satisfaction with college life was higher in freshmen than in sophomores, but among general high school graduates, only emotional adaptation was higher in freshmen than in sophomores. The difference was relatively large in emotional adaptation and satisfaction with college life probably because study grows more difficult in the 2nd year due to the characteristics of health?related departments and, as a result, vocational high school graduates’ satisfaction goes down in the 2nd year compared to that in the 1st year. In case of general high school graduates, their emotional adaptation was high in the 1st year but went down with advancing school year. These results suggest that, despite difference between them, both vocational and general high school graduates feel difficulty in study with advancing school year. As this study included only freshmen and sophomores sampled from two?year colleges, however, more precise research may be necessary including 3rd?year students. 4. When adaptation to college life was compared according to graduation year, among vocational high school graduates, those graduated earlier than 2010 or before showed the highest adaptation level in academic adaptation, emotional adaptation and satisfaction with college life domain but not in social adaptation, and those graduated in 2011 showed the second highest adaptation, and those graduated in 2010 showed the lowest adaptation. Among general high school graduates, those graduated earlier than 2010 showed the highest level of adaptation to college life in all the domains, those graduated in 2011 showed the second highest level, and those graduated in 2010 showed the lowest adaptation to college life. That is, without difference between vocational and general high school graduates, students who had graduated from the high school long ago, namely, late learners and students who had returned after the military service were most excellent in adaptation to college life, and those graduated in 2011, namely, freshmen were also good at adaptation. Those who had graduated in 2010, most of whom were supposed to be sophomores, showed the lowest adaptation. These results, similar to those according to school year, suggest that the curriculums of two?year colleges should be more flexible and that further cause analysis is necessary in future research. From the results of this study as presented above, it was found that adaptation to college life was not different between vocational and general high school graduates but it was significantly different between male and female students, according to school year, and according to graduation year for the reasons such as the inclusion of male students who had returned after completing the military service, and more specific cause analysis is required for the reasons. Based on these results, we suggest future research to get objective materials for guiding vocational high school graduates studying health?related majors and to develop research tools for broadening cause analysis to college students in four?year colleges and universities.
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KEYWORD
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Adaptation to college Life, Academic Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Personal-emotional, Institutional Attachment
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