Literature Review 5

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Tinto, Vincent.

Vincent Tinto’s Leaving College : Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1987. N. pag.print.

3. This book is a detailed exploration of the many reasons students choose to drop out of school. This goes through every possible explanation for the drop-out rates and offers some prevention methods as well as methods on how to make students feel more welcome. The big point is that the main reason college students leave college is because of a lack of adequate social interaction and connectivity with their school.
4. Vincent Tinto is a professor of Education and Sociology at Syracuse University. This book is widely read and recognized and has gotten many awards. There is extensive information about him here: http://soe.syr.edu/about/member.aspx?fac=64
5. Key Terms:
1. Leavers: This refers to the students who eventually drop out of college. 
2. Persisters: Refers to the students who overcome all of the adversary factors and graduate college

6. Quotes:
1.  “The absence of sufficient contact with other members of the institution proves to be the single most important predictor of eventual departure” (56).
2. “Many isolates relied more heavily on high school friends, family, or friends from work. Over time it grew more unlikely that these women would form friendships on campus” (110).
3. “Voluntary leavers were much less likely than were persisters to identify someone on campus with whom they had a significant relationship and or served as a significant definer of their actions” (56).

7. This book is important as one of the main components of my paper is the effect of social isolation on low-income college students' mental health and success in college. It provides a framework for just how influential social interaction and a sense of belonging is in every students' experience in college. Tinto just puts social isolation and its effect on mental health into perspective by his assertion that it is the single most important indicator in whether or not a student will complete college.

Final Blog: Why Low-Income College Students are at risk for Depression

Abstract:

This paper is a speculative piece on how depression in college is not only a common occurrence but that it is more likely to occur in certain populations of students. This paper focuses on low-income college students and the factors which make them more susceptible to depression in college. Firstly, it explore why college is a harmful mental health environment for everyone and comprises of quotes from other scholars who study college depression. It then launches into the fact that college is set up against those who are not wealthy enough to afford college without crippling loans and debt and how this instills an unease in lower-income students. This leads to financial strain, social isolation, and risk for drop-out from school. Becker, who believes stress is a myth that we have latched on to in order to avoid facing bigger, more systematic issues. The paper concludes with ideas to help prepare low-income students for what awaits them in college and programs/ideas to sustain their resilience while in school in order for them to succeed against the odds.


Bibliography:

Armstrong, Elizabeth and Laura Hamilton. Paying for the Party:

How College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2013. Print

Aselton, Pamela.

"Sources Of Stress And Coping In American College Students Who Have Been Diagnosed With Depression." Journal Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 25.3 (2012): 119-123. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.

Becker, Dana.

“Does ‘Stress’ Hide Deeper Social Problems?”  One Nation under Stress: The Problem with Stress as an Idea.  Oxford UP, 2013.

Davis, Dannielle. Warfield, Markeba. (2011) The Importance of Networking in the Academic and Professional Experiences of Racial Minority Students in the USA, Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 17:2, 97-113, DOI:10.1080/13803611.200.597113

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"Resilience Mediates The Relations Between Perfectionism And College   Student Distress." Journal Of Counseling & Development 92.1 (2014): 75-82. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Feb. 2015.’

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"Working And Non-Working University Students: Anxiety, Depression, And Grade Point Average." College Student Journal 47.2 (2013): 379-389. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.

Narduzzi, Arianna. The Creative Process, Suicide Research. retrieved from: https://ariannanarduzzicas110.wordpress.com/

Ross, Ramona, Schools Within the Community Lecture (2015) Retrieved from: https://content.sakai.rutgers.edu/access/content/group/62f1ece5-cfe3-419b-aeb0-345dab3ed3a3/Lectures/Lecture%204%20to%20Post.pdf

Serido, Joyce, et al. "Financial Adaptation Among College Students: Helping Students Cope With Financial Strain." Journal Of College Student Development 3 (2014): 310. Project MUSE. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.

Tinto, Vincent. Vincent Tinto’s Leaving College : Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1987. N. pag.print.

Walsemann, Katrina M., Gilbert C. Gee, and Danielle Gentile. "Sick Of Our Loans: Student Borrowing And The Mental Health Of Young Adults In The United States." Social Science & Medicine 124.(2015): 85-93. ScienceDirect. Web. 30 Apr. 2015.

This paper can be found at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13FkI6YewtqTU81d2jvVGHQ4MPrJrdPUDlTVEY6ZrPkk/edit