Predicting school sense of community: students' perceptions at two Catholic universities.

Understanding the factors that predict sense of community (SOC) among college students has important implications for higher education policy and practice. The present study determined whether perceptions of inclusion and religious pluralism across 2,199 university students' (1,442 women, 757 men; M age = 23.42, SD =7.

Who do we say we are? Publically proclaiming one's university mission identity. Introduction.

While U.S. colleges and universities ponder their mission, vision, values, and virtues, researchers at a large, urban, Catholic, patron-identity university actively engaged in empirical assessments of "who we say we are.

Youth smoking status: perceptions versus measurements.

Objective: To determine whether youths who have smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days perceive themselves as smokers.

Methods: Sensitivity and specificity for 3 classifications were analyzed and compared to youths' perceptions of smoking status.

Results: The common criterion of having smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days reflected youths' perceptions of their smoking status with modest accuracy although adding a second criterion of having also smoked 100 or more cigarettes in a lifetime more accurately reflects youths' perceptions of their smoking status.