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There are few times during students’ lives that are as emotionally varied and confusing as the years they spend at university. Oftentimes, these years are filled with excitement and positive change, during which many students discover new interests, meet new friends, and relish a newfound freedom. Yet at the same time these years are a stressful period of life, replete with significant life transitions: the completion of secondary school, living away from home and managing financial pressures for the first time, making new friends, adapting to autonomous learning, forging a potential career path ahead, and perhaps above all, trying to find an identity and purpose in life. It is not unusual for students to feel lost, anxious, and lonely trying to navigate their way through these many coinciding life challenges. While many adults indeed look back on their university years fondly, there are others who shudder at the unpleasant memories, glad the experience is over, and others still who never made it through university at all.
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Slemp, G.R. (2017). University Settings: A New Frontier for Positive Education. In: White, M., Slemp, G., Murray, A. (eds) Future Directions in Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56889-8_25
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