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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 selective colleges. Lifting a psychological barrier at a key transition can facilitate students' access to positive institutional channels, giving rise to accumulative benefits.

SUBMITTER: Goyer JP 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Goyer J Parker JP   Garcia Julio J   Purdie-Vaughns Valerie V   Binning Kevin R KR   Cook Jonathan E JE   Reeves Stephanie L SL   Apfel Nancy N   Taborsky-Barba Suzanne S   Sherman David K DK   Cohen Geoffrey L GL  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170619 29


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  ...[more]

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