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How Students' Expectations Shape Their Quest for Purpose During College
How Students' Expectations Shape Their Quest for Purpose During College
Introduction
Few opportunities to develop strong background beliefs and ideals
Emilee doesn't need college to find the purpose of life
Analysis that helped them understand universities environment.
Method
understand students' experience
Partnered with Gallup to help with study
Question that were in the guide
life purpose
expectation of college experiences to guide or direct the purpose
Guidance about life meaning
Class discussions or assigned readings about meaning and purpose
Conversations outside of class with friends or professors regarding life purpose
Interviewed by phone for 20 to 30 min.
First circle: Holistic coding
identify broad categories of responses
data examined in sentences and paragraphs
Summative word or phrase
Axial approach
Dominent
Less important
reorganize the data set
Gathered multiple perspecitves
Examined codes for accuracy, consistency, and clarity
Relationship between expectations and social supports
Third round to examine demographics of out sample
Don't have access to race and ethnicity of participants
Gallup didn't ask for permission to share race and ethnicity so they couldn't share it.
Findings
Students' expectations of their college experiences have a unique influence on the way they develop and make expectations in university environment
Holistic: claim that they expected the university to aid in their purpose development
Career expectations
Social expectations and experiences
epistemological expectations
Instrumentalists did not expect their university to affect them i this manner
Another step in school
Career searchers
Instrumental language and Narrative
Conclusion
Development linked to students expectations
University job must involve convincing the instrumentalist that the university is a time for reflection about life's big question
University staff may need to expose students to various approaches to finding purpose and move students to broader and more other oriented purpose