Outcomes of social class and classism in first- and continuing-generation college students.

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake A. Allan ◽  
Patton O. Garriott ◽  
Chesleigh N. Keene
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class

Social Class, Classism, Stigma, and College Students’ Attitudes Toward Counseling

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 761-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na-Yeun Choi ◽  
Matthew J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Research University ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Subjective Social Class

This study tested two competing theoretically and empirically derived models of college students’ attitudes toward seeking counseling. It extends the literature in this area by assessing the influence of objective and subjective social class, classism, and stigma on attitudes. We used structural equation modeling to analyze self-reported archival data from 2,230 incoming college students at a large, public research university in the Eastern United States. The results demonstrated the superiority of the direct and indirect effects of social class over the competing indirect effects model of social class. The results further indicated that objective social class related to attitudes toward seeking professional help indirectly through subjective social class, classism, and stigma. Finally, the results also showed that objective social class, subjective social class, and classism operated differently in the model. We discuss study limitations, future directions for research, and recommendations for practice.

Social-Class Bias in Clinical Judgment and Recommendation for Treatment Using the Biographical Vignette Technique

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon J. Schofield ◽  
James D. Oakes
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Class Bias ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychotic Behavior

An autobiographical vignette technique was used with 14 mental hospital attendants and 14 college students rating the severity of emotional problems and recommending various forms of treatment for fictitious individuals. A social-class bias was observed; the lower-class individuals were seen as having a greater need for help than the middle-class individuals, particularly when both were given descriptions of psychotic behavior. However, the recommendation of treatment was not affected by the social class of the individuals. The results are not consistent with those of a recent study by Routh and King which showed middle-class individuals were rated as having a greater need for help than lower-class individuals using a similar vignette technique.

Social Class Fragility and College Students’ Career Decision-Making at a Private University

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Keaton C. Muzika ◽  
Aaron Hudyma ◽  
Patton O. Garriott ◽  
Dana Santiago ◽  
Jessica Morse
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Interventions

The present study examined the role of social class in the career decision-making of undergraduate students attending a private university. Grounded theory was used to describe the process of social class and undergraduates’ career interests and plans. Interviews with undergraduate students ( N = 21) resulted in four categories and 13 axial codes. The grounded theory emerging from the data was labeled, social class fragility. Social class fragility captured the career goals and behaviors associated with participants’ striving for an acceptable career choice, based upon their social class contexts. The contextual factors described by participants included relational influences, social class consciousness, and vocational privilege. Results are discussed in terms of career interventions with college students attending universities that encapsulate upper middle-class norms.

The social class worldviews of first-generation college students

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J. Rice ◽  
Alexander J. Colbow ◽  
Shane Gibbons ◽  
Charles Cederberg ◽  
Ethan Sahker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Generation College

Individual and Social Correlates of the Just World Belief: A Study of Taiwanese College Students

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Chen Ma ◽  
Kevin B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Scale Score ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Just World ◽  
Social Correlates ◽  
Just World Belief ◽  
Subjective Social Class

This paper reports the results of a study to identify empirically the nature and correlates of the Just World Belief among Taiwanese college students. Data were collected from over 1,000 students enrolled in two major Taiwanese universities. Similar to Western findings, the average Just World Scale score fell almost exactly at the midpoint of the acceptance-rejection attitudinal continuum. Also similar to Western findings were strong correlations between belief scores and scores on work ethic and alienation scales. In contrast to many Western studies, weak correlations were found for belief scores with authoritarianism, sex, religiosity, subjective social class location, and parents' education. Cross-cultural measurement problems and interpretations are also presented.

Differences among College Students' Perceptions of Family Satisfaction

1989 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
Gregory E. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Family Form ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
Home Community ◽  
Time Away

Differences in reported family satisfaction were found among groups of college students of different social class, family form, length of time away from home. Differences were not found among students of different ages, races, birth order, marital status, or size of home community.

Relation of Name Frequency to the Perception of Social Class in Given Names

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 623-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
The Relationship

In a study of the relationship between name frequency and perceived social class, 116 college students rated the perceived social class of a list of either 60 male names or 60 female names. Each list consisted of equal numbers of common, less common, dated, or rare names. An analysis of variance indicated significant main effects of sex of name and frequency of name as well as a significant interaction between those two variables. The respondents rated the men's names as higher in social class than the women's names. Post hoc comparisons indicated that rare names of either sex were rated as lower in class status than were common, less common, or dated names. While dated women's names were rated lower than were common and less common women's names, dated men's names were not adversely affected in a comparison with common or less common men's names.

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