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- Title
The fit between dignity self‐construal and independent university norms: Effects on university belonging, well‐being, and academic success.
- Authors
Menkor, Michèle; Nagengast, Benjamin; Van Laar, Colette; Sassenberg, Kai
- Abstract
Universities struggle with students' low well‐being and high dropout rates. High (compared to low) fit between students' self‐construal and perceived university norms might help to prevent these problems. A strong dignity self‐construal (i.e., the understanding that one's worth is independent of others) is adaptive if university norms stress independence. The more a university norm is perceived as stressing independence, the better the fit for students with a strong (vs. weak) dignity self‐construal. Thus, if students with a strong dignity self‐construal perceive a university norm as stressing independence, they should develop a greater sense of belonging to the university and, in turn, experience higher well‐being, more motivation, and lower dropout intention. A longitudinal study with two measurement points conducted with students from 18 universities (N = 719) provided support for these predictions. This underlines the relevance of the fit between student and (perceived) school characteristics for the higher education sector.
- Subjects
COLLEGE students; WELL-being; STATISTICS; CONFIDENCE intervals; MOTIVATION (Psychology); CROSS-sectional method; ACADEMIC achievement; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HYPOTHESIS; DIGNITY; DATA analysis software
- Publication
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2021, Vol 51, Issue 1, p100
- ISSN
0046-2772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejsp.2717