Most retained studies lack pre-university baselines, with only five of 32 taking a baseline before students started university, limiting understanding of pre-transition processes¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Without pre-university baselines, first-month measures such as college adaptation and adjustment could be outcomes themselves, making directionality difficult to establish. → Ball 2025

Evidence¶

Ball 2025¶

Ball, I., Banerjee, M., Holliman, A., & Tyndall, I. (2025). Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Psychosocial Success. https://osf.io/vxu5q?view_only=ee23e20f57c54891b842c92b7a4858de

q2 · i? · review · r3

In the Discussion, the review argues that factors like college adaptation (Li et al., 2021) and social and academic adjustment (Meng et al., 2015), measured in the first months, could be outcomes themselves, and that two-wave designs lack appreciation of change over longer periods.

"without pre-university baselines we cannot understand what predicts these first month measures"

Discussion¶

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• A systematic review of 32 longitudinal studies identified 96 personal risk and protective factors for psychosocial transition success, consolidated into 16 salient elements across five higher-order domains — a broader claim this one bears on
• Adjustment variables show the largest coefficients of any factor domain but are typically measured after arrival, limiting their use for designing pre-transition interventions — related