Adaptation and Stress for the First Year University Students

摘要

This study aims to explore college adjustment and its relationship with stress for 157 students (48 males, 109 females) from humanities field of Transilvania University of Brasov. I used Baker and Siryk's Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire and Gadzella's Student-life Stress Inventory, and in addition a demographic mini-questionnaire for factual data. I anticipated narrow relationships between stress and college adaptation, and I searched for demographic determinants (gender, age and life environment) of academic adaptation and stress. The results confirm hypotheses and reveal good psychometric properties for the instruments involved in research.