The Impact of Discrimination Beyond Sense of Belonging: Predicting College Students’ Confidence in Their Ability to Graduate

Autor: Ledric D Sherman, Zachary A. Jackson, I. Shevon Harvey
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. 24:973-987
ISSN: 1541-4167
1521-0251
DOI: 10.1177/1521025120957601
Popis: Data from the Healthy Mind Study were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression analyses to determine the role of discriminatory experience in students’ confidence in their ability to persist through graduation, controlling for age, extracurricular activity participation, housing, years in their degree program, and their sense of belonging. The final sample consists of 4,708 college students—57.1% women, 70.8% Whites, 7.4% Blacks, 10.4% Asians, and 10.4% Latinx. A final hierarchical multiple regression with discrimination and covariates revealed an overall model that explained 15.5% of the total variance of confidence to persist (F [12, 4574] = 76.762, p
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