Self-affirmation facilitates minority middle schoolers' progress along college trajectories.

ABSTRACT: Small but timely experiences can have long-term benefits when their psychological effects interact with institutional processes. In a follow-up of two randomized field experiments, a brief values affirmation intervention designed to buffer minority middle schoolers against the threat of negative stereotypes had long-term benefits on college-relevant outcomes. In study 1, conducted in the Mountain West, the intervention increased Latino Americans' probability of entering a college readiness track rather than a remedial one near the transition to high school 2 y later. In study 2, conducted in the Northeast, the intervention increased African Americans' probability of college enrollment 7-9 y later. Among those who enrolled in college, affirmed African Americans attended relatively more sele

SUBMITTER: Goyer JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5530645 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature