Parental involvement as it relates to student satisfaction for undergraduate students at a 4-year public university

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dc.contributorMajor, Claire Howell
dc.contributorDavis, Cali M.
dc.contributorCramer, Kathleen P.
dc.contributorHarris, Michael S.
dc.contributor.advisorBray, Nathaniel J.
dc.contributor.authorOliver, Bryan
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01T14:43:10Z
dc.date.available2017-03-01T14:43:10Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to examine the topic of parental involvement as it relates to students at a 4-year public university. Previous studies have researched parent involvement by surveying parents on how involved they are in the higher education process of their students. Without providing student input on this issue, most previous data does not present a complete picture of the effects of parent involvement and how satisfied undergraduate students are with that involvement. Universities and administrators alike should value this information to help them better understand the student-parent relationship in college. It is important to comprehend this so that when colleges and universities seek to include parents in their students' college experience, they can use past and present research to develop plausible solutions. The bodies of literature and the results of this study help create a link between the research questions and conceptual framework. The literature focuses on several main topic areas, including student satisfaction measures, Generation Y, parental involvement, perceptions of parental involvement, college transition, and the first-year experience. The examination of the literature allows for the development of four main research questions and subquestions addressing parental involvement as it relates to student satisfaction. Data for this study included a sample of 4,340 undergraduate-level students at a southeastern university. T tests, regression, and Chi-square were used to analyze the data and provide results for the four main research questions. The researcher found through analysis of the data that a relationship existed between parental involvement and student satisfaction. The results of the t tests also showed that significance existed between certain demographic groups for items under college choice, social experience, and academic experience.en_US
dc.format.extent146 p.
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0000642
dc.identifier.otherOliver_alatus_0004D_10805
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/1147
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectHigher education administration
dc.subjectHigher education
dc.subjectEducation
dc.titleParental involvement as it relates to student satisfaction for undergraduate students at a 4-year public universityen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies
etdms.degree.disciplineHigher Education Administration
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.

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