Show Your Pride? First-Generation College Student Experiences with Academic Achievement.

ABSTRACT: Does upward social mobility shape how individuals navigate emotion-laden experiences? The current study examined this question in the context of academic achievement in a sample of first-generation college students. As the first in their families to attend university, this is a group that finds themselves in university environments that encourage open expression of individual achievement, but who typically come from sociocultural backgrounds where there is wariness of the social distancing that can be created by open expression of individual achievement. Qualitative methodology, which allows for in-depth exploration that can generate novel insights and advance theory, was used to study how first-generation college students at the graduate level (N = 32) navigate the emotions that co

SUBMITTER: Sanchez Hernandez H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12579612 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature