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Susmita Sengupta; Sanat Kumar Guchhait – Discover Education, 2024
What motivates a first-generation learner to go to school? The question haunts a social scientist when exploring dimensions of academic motivation of the first-generation Learners in rural and remote context. Learners from the low Socio-Economic Status are 'at risk' of academic motivation, cohere with specific psychological behaviours leading to…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Rural Areas, Low Income Students, Gender Differences
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Dueñas, Mary; Gloria, Alberta M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
We examined differences in and relationship of psychological (collective self-esteem), social (cohesion and university belonging), and cultural (cultural congruity) dimensions of university mattering for 141 Latin@ undergraduates. Collectively the dimensions accounted for 50% of the variance, with the psychological dimension having the largest…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Undergraduate Students