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Article Dans Une Revue Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Année : 2019

Examining the role of perceived prestige in the link between students’ subjective socioeconomic status and sense of belonging

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Low socioeconomic status (SES) students have a lower sense of belonging to college than high SES students. Due to the importance of sense of belonging in the college pathway, understanding the reason for this relation is particularly important. Here, we argue that in addition to having less access to resources, low SES students in the college context also perceive themselves as having lower prestige than their high SES counterparts. Thus, in the present research, we tested perceived prestige as a mediator of the link between subjective SES and sense of belonging to college. We conducted three studies in two different countries (USA and China), and these investigations provided evidence that the lower students' subjective SES, the lower their self-attributed prestige, and that prestige mediated the relation between students' subjective SES and their sense of belonging to college. The implications of these findings for understanding the collegiate experience of low SES students are discussed.
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hal-01991740 , version 1 (30-01-2019)

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Mickaël Jury, Cristina Aelenei, Chen Chen, Céline Darnon, Andrew J Elliot. Examining the role of perceived prestige in the link between students’ subjective socioeconomic status and sense of belonging. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2019, 22 (3), pp.356-370. ⟨hal-01991740⟩
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