social adaptation of college freshmen students presentation

Social Adaptation of

College Freshmen Students

Erika Hatakeyama ; Archie Fe Limboy ; Emely Flor Rizon ; Kevin Gil Soriano

Introduction

• Attending a university for the first time can be

a stressful experience for many new college

students. The unfamiliarity of university life as

individuals make the transition to adulthood

can challenge an individual’s personal security,

need for acceptance, need for comfort, and

social support network. As a result, many

incoming freshmen may have difficulty

adapting to university life.

• Adaptation is the state of adjustment

between an organism or a social group and

its environment as is favorable to

existence and growth, or the process be

which unity comes into, and continues in

this favorable relation.

• To many adolescents, how they are seen

by peers is the most important aspect of

their lives. Some adolescents will go along

anything, just to be included as a member

of the group. To them, being excluded

means stress, frustration, and sadness.

• Social adaptation is an important aspect in college. It is

the “ability to live and express oneself according to

social restrictions and cultural demands”.

• Knowing oneself is an important weapon everyone

should strive for, such weapon that could be use to

socially adapt. Our emotions greatly affect our

personality and our whole as individual.

• The intention of this study is to relate the importance of

social adaptation to freshmen students of De La Salle

University-Dasmariñas for their survival and to provide

relatable facts that would guide them to socially adapt.

Statement of the Problem

• The purpose of this study is to know how college freshmen students socially adapt, view, and cope to changes that are part of college. The purpose of this study is to answer this question:

What are the effects of social adaptation to our study habits and approach to others in both positive and negative way?

• This study focuses on the effects of social adaptation on both sides of the study.

• Due to the limited time given to us and because of the broadness of our topic, this study will no longer discuss other related topics such as ways of coping to changes, what event affect the view of an individual to his/her surrounding.

SCOPE

AND

LIMITATION

• There would be instances that these topics are included but we would not thoroughly expound on it. This is done to give emphasis on the effects of social adaptation as the main topic of the research.

• This study would be most relevant to freshmen college students who are the prime subject of the topic.

• College Freshmen Students.» This research paper would be able

to help freshmen students in college because this provides the freshmen college students an information that will help the freshmen students know what is the importance of social adaptation and what are the effects of these in both positive and negative way.

• Guidance Counselors and Professors.

» Guidance counselors and professors of college freshmen students would benefit from this study because they would be able to use make use of the information to know and understand the emotions and attitudes of freshmen students towards their classmates and studies.

SIGNIFICANCE

OF

THE

STUDY

• Future Researchers.»This study is crucial for future researchers to make similar studies because social adaptation is a very broad topic and this will need more time to study all the sides and aspects of social adaptation.

Definition of Terms

• Adaptation – Change in behavior of a person or group in response to new or modified surroundings.

• Adolescent - transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood

• Development - a progression from a simpler or lower to a more advanced, mature, or complex form or stage.

• Emotion- associated with mood, temperament, personality and disposition, and motivation.

• Emotional Maladjustment- Inability to adjust to the demands of interpersonal relationships and the stresses of daily living.

• Environment- surroundings of an object.

• Freshmen - Slang plural frosh (or freshmeat) is a first-year student in secondary school or college. The term first year can also be used as a noun, to describe the students themselves

• Norms- average standard of achievement on a test for a selected group.

• Social Adaptation - The ability to live and express oneself according to social restrictions and cultural demands

• Transition – a change of one place or state or stage to another

• University - is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects.

Related Studies and Related Literature

• The idea of adaptation stems from

Selye’s (1936) general adaptation

syndrome, in which a state of

adaptation or adjustment must

occur following a stressful

experience as a state of alarm

cannot be maintained over a long

period without causing exhaustion.

To adapt to their surrounding

environment, an individual must

cope with and manage problems,

challenges, and demands in his or

her daily life.

ADAPTATION

The performance of the stage adaptation period

• Excitement Phase

– The success of college entrance examination,

so that students enter school at a later

period are still immersed in the joy of being

excited. At this stage, the mood is often

active, eager to know the students and the

surrounding environment, the future of

learning life is full of self-confidence and

fantasy, but this time right will encounter

difficulties and problems in the lack of

adequate mental preparation.

• Confused Period of

– Study into the normal track after the

encounter all kinds of unexpected difficulties

and problems, which are loss, anxiety, low

self-esteem, anguish and confusion, mental

imbalance, and some students have even

suspect that their qualities and abilities.

• Adjustment Period

– Difficulties and problems encountered by

students, after a period of confusion and

depression will then recover. Through

reflection, the students will re-summon the

courage to move forward, establish

objective of the struggle to find root of the

problem, determine the appropriate

measures to carry out new exploration and

adjustment, and continuously acquire new

progress and experience.

• Stable Period

– Through the subjective efforts to

resolve the problem of not adapting

familiar with and adapt to the new

environment, straighten out its own

place in the collective, emotional calm

and mental balance, relations tend to

co-ordination, learning, life orderly.

Common 'suited' Mental Performance

• Geographical Barriers – feeling of

homesickness• Homesick, almost every freshman will encounter in

the field, because of miss home, my parents were

the secondary school life and old friends, often

distracted, it is difficult to concentrate on learning.

With the adaptation to the environment, the

formation of a collective class, age, growth and

grade promotion, homesick feelings slowly fading.

Usually the first one to return to school after the

winter the situation will be greatly improved.

• The contrast between the ideal and the

reality - a sense of disillusionment.

• Some students could not admit to their

favorite professional or schools, so difficult to

achieve career aspirations.

• Some students enter the university to re-

evaluate their own professional interests and

their own conditions, and found that the

professional is inconsistent with the actual

study, the resulting frustration.

• An ideal 'break' - a sense of confusion

• Achieve the objective of the university

entrance exam, some students lost and the

pursuit of new goals, there 'an ideal interim

period', unwilling to learn, making progress,

doing nothing, tired of life.

• Learning to compete - a sense of crisis • Students are learning in middle school, the leader,

but will find that access to university study and

intense competition, to achieve outstanding results

in no easy task.

• For various reasons, some students struggling to

learn, poor performance, psychological generate a

sense of crisis, there has been anxious or

pessimistic mood. This should not be complaining,

we can not give up on them, but need to seriously

find out the reasons to improve the learning

methods, change from passive to active.

Materials and Methods

• In the research we are conducting

we use the approach of both

qualitative and quantitative

approach.

• Our topic focuses on human

behavior, this approach is the

proper approach to be use.

• This type of research is a flexible

one that can be used if your

research topic is too broad to be

answered by yes or no thus it can

be an open ended research.

RESEARCH

DESIGN

• Qualitative research uses

different approach of

data gathering, all of

which added information

to further support the

study.

• One Hundred (100) college freshmen

students from De La Salle University-

Dasmariñas participated in this study

(n=100).

• Participants ranged from 16-17 years old.

• In that participants we will be able to get

information that will help to support the

study we are conducting.

• From the information that is presented, we

will be able to determine if there were

significant differences between the groups

based on gender and place of residence.

RESPONDENTS

Methodology• This research was conducted by means of

survey.

• The researchers prepared a survey-

questionnaire which aims to gather information

from different respondents about their

experiences in dealing with their new

environment as they enter their first year in

college life.

• The researcher also gets some information by

using other books as reference. The

researchers also used internet to gather more

information related to the topic they are going

to discuss.

Research Materials

• The survey questionnaire was used as the main data-

gathering instrument for this study.

• This survey questionnaire contained information

about the respondents and questions where they will

share their opinions about certain issues. The survey

explored the perceptions of 1st year students on

their social adaptation, particularly during their first

few weeks in college.

• The survey also contains questions that identify the

positive and negative effects of social adaptation on

1st year students.

Results and Discussion

• The result of the survey-questionnaire that was

distributed to the respondents will be

presented in this part.

• Our respondents are the college freshmen

students that came from different colleges of

De La Salle University-Dasmariñas because our

study is about the social adaptation of college

freshmen students.

CBA

CEAT

CLA

COE

COS

CIH

CLE

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%

Distribution of Respondents According to College

Male

Female

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Respondents According to Gender

excited

nervous

shy

scared

What did you feel during your first day at school?

Meeting new friends53%

Studying35%

Meeting new professors12%

What made you most excited as you enter college?

Yes29%

No71%

Do you have any preparations for college?

Yes85%

No15%

Were you able to adapt to your new surroundings?

Yes90%

No10%

Is having friend important for you to survive college?

Summary, Conclusion, and Recommendation

Summary• The primary objective of this study is to examine how

college freshmen students socially adapt and view the

changes that are part of college. Social adaptation is an

important aspect in college. It is the “ability to live and

express oneself according to social restrictions and

cultural demands”.

• Entering college requires youths to face multiple

transitions, including changes in their living

arrangements, academic environments, and friendship

networks, while adapting to greater independence and

responsibility in their personal and academic lives.

• The analysis done using official data

gathered through other references shows

that the teenagers think that acceptance

from peers are the primary goal for them

in their lives. Others would do everything

their peer wants, in order for them not to

be excluded in the group. Interestingly, a

positive effect of social adaptation is that

when they successfully adapted to their

friends it may lead to individuals

becoming more successful and orderly in

both their studies and social life.

• Analysis of data from the survey-questionnaire collected

from a hundred students from De La Salle University-

Dasmariñas showed that meeting new friends is what

students look forward to in entering college; it seems to

be that having many friends would be their prime goal.

• How we are seen by others are important, but if we can

know ourselves more it would be a great tool to socially

adapt because if we are happy about whom we are this

would somehow reflect positively in our attitude towards

others.

• The researchers got a four top answers in

related on how did the respondents feel during

their first day in school. And these are as

follows: • Being Excited – TOP ANSWER (46%)

• Being nervous – (32%)

• Being shy – (10%)

• Being scared - (9%)

• Most of the respondents are very excited to

meet new friends rather than to study. 71% of

them said that they don’t have any preparation

for entering college and 29% of them said that

they are prepared which helps them more to

adapt in their new surroundings. While doing

the research, the researchers also find that

some of the respondents doesn’t have any

preparation in entering college, having friends

is one way for them to survive college life and

to adapt into their new surroundings.

CONCLUSIONS

Recommendation

• In connection with the conclusion said above,

the researchers recommend the following:• To College Freshmen Students, they should learn to allot some of their

time to prepare in entering college life. In that manner, they will be able

to adapt easily in their new surroundings, and for them to know the

importance of adaptation, especially in social adaptation, in both positive

and negative ways.

• To the Guidance Counsellors and Professor, try to understand the

emotions and attitudes of freshmen students towards their classmates

and studies to be able to help the freshmen students cope up to their

new surroundings.

• To the Future Researcher, even though social adaptation is a very broad

topic and this will need more time to study all the sides and aspects of

social adaptation, may this research could serve as a good help for the

future researchers be able to continue or enhance this study to help more

freshmen students in social adaptation in order for them to succeed.