Quality or Quantity: The Relationship Between Students' Studying Approaches and Development of the Authentic Self

• In Event: 51.037 - Embracing the Whole Student: Perspectives on College Student Development

Abstract

Prevailing discussions about academic coursework have often focused on the quantity of student engagement, which sometimes comes at the expense of considering the nature of this work. Therefore, this paper explores the extent to which two different conceptualizations of studying predict changes in authenticity, providing a broad understanding of the growth and development of students’ inner lives. The results indicate that integration of learning is strongly and positively related to gains in several domains of authenticity, whereas overall time spent studying has little or no relationship with these outcomes. These findings have important implications for higher education research and practice.

Authors

• KC Culver, The University of Iowa

• Nicholas A. Bowman, University of Iowa

• Nayoung Jang, The University of Iowa