Knowing One's Place: Parental Educational Background Influences Social Identification with Academia, Test Anxiety, and Satisfaction with Studying at University

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 8; p. 1326
• Main Authors: Janke, Stefan, Rudert, Selma C, Marksteiner, Tamara, Dickhäuser, Oliver
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 03.08.2017
• Subjects: first-generation students; higher education; Psychology; satisfaction with studying; social class; social identity; test anxiety; satisfaction with studying; higher education; test anxiety; social identity; first-generation students; social class

First-generation students (i.e., students whose parents did not attend university) often experience difficulties fitting in with the social environment at universities. This experience of personal misfit is supposedly associated with an impaired social identification with their aspired in-group of a...