Vol 3 Issue 4 July 2016-August 2016
DR. REBECCA M. ALCUIZAR
Abstract: This study determined the effect of wellness engagement on identity formation and academic performance of college students. The components of wellness engagement involved, physical activities, diet, and night activities. It also determined the implications of wellness engagement on the students’ identity formation in terms of self-efficacy, critical thinking skills and social competence. The profile of the respondents was determined in terms of gender, living condition, family monthly income, attitude towards studies, and stress coping skills. Descriptive-correlation method of research was used which described the respondents’ wellness engagement, identity formation, and academic performance Likewise, descriptive statistics was used to determine the significant difference of the dependent variables when grouped according to the independent variables. The effect of students’ wellness engagement on their identity formation and academic performance, linear regression was used. The finding of the study revealed that students’ wellness engagement is highly significant on their identity formation and academic performance. This further denotes that wellness engagement has a significant contribution to the development of the respondents’ identity formation particularly on critical thinking skills, social competence and self-efficacy which are important factors for the improvement of students’ academic performance. Further, statistical data shows that self-efficacy mediated the relationship between wellness engagement of the respondents and identity formation particularly on self-efficacy with “high” coping skills.
Keywords: Academic Performance, Critical Thinking, Identity Formation, Self Efficacy, Social competence, Wellness engagement.
Title: Effect of Wellness Engagement on Identity Formation and Academic Performance of College Students
Author: DR. REBECCA M. ALCUIZAR
ISSN 2394-9686
International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning
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