Term of Award
Summer 2024
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership (Ed.D.)
Document Type and Release Option
Dissertation (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
College of Education
Committee Chair
Elise Cain
Committee Member 1
Steven Tolman
Committee Member 2
Antonio P. Gutierrez de Blume
Abstract
For many traditional-aged students, college can be their first major financial undertaking. Along with navigating the task of funding a college education, traditionally aged students may face additional financial challenges while entering adulthood. This financial responsibility can cause added stress for students and have a bearing on their financial wellness. This study explored the impact of financial wellness on students' abilities to succeed in college. Through the exploration of four financial wellness measures, financial self-efficacy, financial socialization, financial strain, and financial optimism, the researcher sought to first understand the relationships among the various wellness measures and then to determine what impact, if any, financial wellness has on student success as measured by student GPA. Bandura’s (1977) theory of self-efficacy guided this study. Findings from this study revealed that financial socialization, strain, and optimism all had a statistically significant relationship with financial self-efficacy. However, the aforementioned financial wellness measures did not have a significant relationship with student GPA. This study makes the case for future research to take a different approach by exploring more financial wellness measures as well as different measures of student success, in particular holistic development measures.
OCLC Number
1446519611
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Recommended Citation
Hamilton, H. (2024). The impact of financial wellness on student success. (Doctoral dissertation).
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No