ERIC Number: ED645552
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 50
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-8340-4211-2
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Discrimination, Acculturative Stress, and Academic Achievement
Rebecca A. Steele
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, St. John's University (New York)
Researchers report an association of racial discrimination to academic achievement for racial/ethnic minority students. Racial discrimination is manifest on multiple levels, including interpersonal discrimination, discrimination in schools, and societal and cultural discrimination. Researchers have generally focused their efforts on examining the effects of one type of discrimination on academic achievement. Further, mediators of this relation have not been fully explored. In a sample of 78 college students, only interpersonal racial/ethnic discrimination, and not school-based or societal discrimination, was negatively associated with GPA. However, the effects did not hold once controlling for demographic factors. Two potential mediators of the relations of interpersonal discrimination to GPA were examined: acculturative stress and academic self-efficacy. Interpersonal discrimination was positively associated with acculturative stress but not related to academic self-efficacy. Societal discrimination was associated with academic self-efficacy. However, neither acculturative stress nor academic self-efficacy mediated the relations of discrimination to GPA. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Racial Discrimination, Ethnicity, Social Discrimination, Grade Point Average, Acculturation, Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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