The student-institution fit at university: interactive effects of academic competition and social class on achievement goals
| العنوان: | The student-institution fit at university: interactive effects of academic competition and social class on achievement goals |
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| المؤلفون: | Mickaël Jury, Nicolas Sommet, Gabriel Mugny, Alain Quiamzade |
| المساهمون: | Université de Genève (UNIGE), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Laboratoire de psychologie sociale et de psychologie cognitive (LAPSCO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP), Université de Genève = University of Geneva [UNIGE], Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072 [PSITEC], Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) |
| المصدر: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 6, No 769 (2015) Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers, 2015, 6, pp.769. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00769⟩ Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 6, no. 769, pp. 1-11 Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, 6, pp.769. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00769⟩ Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 6 (2015) |
| بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media S.A., 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | student-institution fit, media_common.quotation_subject, lcsh:BF1-990, Identity (social science), [SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology, 050109 social psychology, Context (language use), Bachelor, Social class, Competition (economics), ddc:150, First- and continuing-generation students, academic competition, Institution, Mathematics education, achievement goals, first-and continuing-generation students, Psychology, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Curriculum, achievement gap, first- and continuing-generation students, General Psychology, media_common, Original Research, 4. Education, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, Achievement gap, Achievement goals, Academic competition, lcsh:Psychology, social class, [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology, Student-institution fit, 0503 education, Graduation |
| الوصف: | International audience; As compared to continuing-generation students, first-generation students are struggling more at university. In the present article, we question the unconditional nature of such a phenomenon and argue that it depends on structural competition. Indeed, most academic departments use harsh selection procedure all throughout the curriculum, fostering between-student competition. In these departments, first-generation students tend to suffer from a lack of student-institution fit, that is, inconsistencies with the competitive institution's culture, practices, and identity. However, one might contend that in less competitive academic departments continuing-generation students might be the ones experiencing a lack of fit. Using a cross-sectional design, we investigated the consequences of such a context-and category-dependent lack of fit on the endorsement of scholastically adaptive goals. We surveyed N = 378 first-and continuing-generation students from either a more competitive or a less competitive department in their first or final year of bachelor's study. In the more competitive department, first-to-third year decrease of mastery goals (i.e., the desire to learn) was found to be steeper for first-than for continuing-generation students. In the less competitive department, the reversed pattern was found. Moreover, first-to-third year decrease of performance goals (i.e., the desire to outperform others) was found to be steeper within the less competitive department but did not depend on social class. This single-site preliminary research highlights the need to take the academic context into account when studying the social class graduation gap. |
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| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00769 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a279e8f3751588f3e065208dac6d26d1Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a279e8f3751588f3e065208dac6d26d1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 16641078 |
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| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00769 |