A brief social-belonging intervention in college improves adult outcomes for black Americans.

ABSTRACT: Could mitigating persistent worries about belonging in the transition to college improve adult life for black Americans? To examine this question, we conducted a long-term follow-up of a randomized social-belonging intervention delivered in the first year of college. This 1-hour exercise represented social and academic adversity early in college as common and temporary. As previously reported in Science, the exercise improved black students' grades and well-being in college. The present study assessed the adult outcomes of these same participants. Examining adult life at an average age of 27, black adults who had received the treatment (versus control) exercise 7 to 11 years earlier reported significantly greater career satisfaction and success, psychological well-being, and communi

SUBMITTER: Brady ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7190359 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature