STUDY ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL

BEHAVIORS OF TRANSFER STUDENTS

BASED ON THEIR ADJUSTMENT
ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

Arman Bryan Benjamin V. Cruz

INTRODUCTION
 “Transfer Shocks”
 Reasons and circumstances
 Early interventions
THEORY
 Schlossberg’s Transition Theory
 Schlossberg defined a transition as any event, or non-
event, that results in changed relationships, routines,
assumptions, and roles
 Schlossberg identified four major sets of factors
that influence a person's ability to cope with a
transition: situation, self, support, and strategies,
which are also known as the 4 S's.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
 Specifically, this study sought answers to the
following questions
 What are the experiences transfer students with the
new environment?
 How do transfer students cope with the new
environment?
 What intervention techniques available to help
students adjust?
SIGNIFICANCE
 Help us to inform students.
 Point out what problems should be considered.
 Improvement.
METHOD
 I. Subject
 20 respondents from Colegio San Juan de Letran were
selected for the study. The respondents were all transfer
students from different schools.

 II. Data Collection

 A semi-structured interview guide will be used to gather
data.
 The questions elicited details of the respondents as well as
information on social and academic adjustment problems
experienced by the transfer students.
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 Hills, J. (1965). “Transfer Shock: The academic performance of the
transfer student. The Journal of Experimental Education, 33(3),
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