Caregiving and Social Support: A Twenty-first Century Challenge for College Students

This study adopted a caregiving perspective to analyze college students’ supportive relationships (N=266). With respect to the provision of care, female caregivers engaged in more difficult types of hands-on support than male caregivers, and data suggested that college caregivers are differently challenged by the life stage of the person for whom they provide care. With respect to students’ reception of social support, both main and interaction effects were found for sex, care giving status, and locus of control. Discussion focuses on the developmental nature of caregiving skills, social support reciprocity, and implications of these findings for public policy and human communication research.     

在“成人”与“教育”之间——成人教育学科发展的回顾与展望

反思成人教育学科发展的思想历程,可以发现其关注焦点从“成人”走向了“教育”。进而,在“成人”与“教育”之间,生成了当代成人教育学科发展的困厄,同时也孕育着学科发展的潜力与未来。成人教育学科未来发展的核心课题是重建学科的研究范式,关键所在是重廓学科的研究边界,而回归成人的生活世界是成人教育学科未来发展的方法论选择。