Lessons of loss: Meaning-making in bereaved college students

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (121) ◽  
pp. 27-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Neimeyer ◽  
Anna Laurie ◽  
Tara Mehta ◽  
Heather Hardison ◽  
Joseph M. Currier
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Meaning Making

Space for Grieving: Themes of Meaning Making and Growth Among Bereaved College Students

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Lord ◽  
Sandra E. Gramling ◽  
Elizabeth Collison ◽  
Rachel Weiskittle
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Meaning Making

Is First-Gen an Identity? How First-Generation College Students Make Meaning of Institutional and Familial Constructions of Self

2020 ◽  
pp. 152102512091330
Author(s):  
Genia M. Bettencourt ◽  
Koboul E. Mansour ◽  
Mujtaba Hedayet ◽  
Patricia Tita Feraud-King ◽  
Kat J. Stephens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Generation Status ◽  
First Generation College

Institutions increasingly use first-generation categorizations to provide support to students. In this study, we sought to understand how students make meaning of their first-generation status by conducting a series of focus groups with 54 participants. Our findings reveal that students saw first-generation status as an organizational and familial identity rather than social identities. This status was connected to alterity and social distance that was most salient in comparison to continuing-generation peers. Our recommendations include reexamining the role of first-generation-specific programming on campus, creating opportunities for meaning-making, supporting students within changing family dynamics, and exploring the interaction between first-generation status and other marginalized identities.

Using Photovoice to Bring Career into a New Focus for First-Generation College Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashné R. Jehangir ◽  
Arien B. Telles ◽  
Veronica Deenanath
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Development Process ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Rich Data ◽  
Low Income College Students

This study examines how first-generation, low-income college students make meaning of their career development process during their first year of college. Photovoice was employed to collect visual data and accompanying narrative texts providing a rich data set created by students during their transition to college. Four findings emerged from this participatory action method where students captured important aspects of their career development process: (a) extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, (b) struggles, (c) agent of change, and (d) envisioning the future. This study deepens our understanding of how the intersection of students’ individual identities, contexts, and motivations can inform praxis and allow them translate their particular assets toward career meaning-making. Systems theory and photovoice together served as useful lenses from which to unpack these identities in this study.

Long Strides on the Journey Toward Self-Authorship: Substantial Developmental Shifts in College Students’ Meaning Making

2013 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 866-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Barber ◽  
Patricia M. King ◽  
Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Self Authorship
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