Students' Emotional and Behavioural Adjustments as Factors Influencing Academic Success

The present study takes into consideration several important aspects connected to students’ emotional and behavioral adjustment during the transition period from high school to university. Students’ adjustment is part of the explanation concerning students’ performance in their academic path, the decision of dropping out of university and success in their future professional life. Our study investigates students’ capacity to adapt to new systems and standards as imposed by academic life. As observed by numerous researchers, adjustments to academic life involve a number of modifications on several plans, which allow students to meet the new requirements they are confronted with in order to effectively participate to courses and activities. These are varied and complex and comprise- several levels of their life. Our attention is particularly focused on identifying and observing those tightly connected to their emotional and behavioral adjustments which can be improved by the academic systems.