title: Linking academic social environments, ego-identity formation, ego virtues, and academic success.
abstract: This study used Structural Equation Modeling to test an Eriksonian conceptual model linking academic social environments (relationships with faculty and fellow students), ego-identity formation, ego virtues, and academic success. Participants included 765 first-year students at a university in southern Ontario, Canada. Results indicated that supportive relationships with faculty was directly related to higher average grades and perceived academic ability, whereas positive relationships with fellow students was indirectly related to academic success through ego virtues. Positive ego-identity formation (identity achievement) was also indirectly related to academic success through ego virtues.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2RSCA. marie.good@brocku.ca
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Good
authors.forename: Gerald R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D004532:Ego; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009864:Ontario; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D028722:Virtues