- Title
- Social class differences in social integration at university: implications for academic outcomes and mental health
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark; Evans, Olivia; McGuffog, Romany
- Relation
- The Social Psychology of Inequality p. 87-102
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28856-3_6
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- University represents a pathway to upward social mobility for many working-class people. However, this distinctly middle-class environment also provides a number of unique social psychological challenges for working-class students. Working-class university students are often in the minority group at university, they are often the first in their families to attend university, and they often feel out of place at university. They also lack the time and money required to engage with other students on campus. Consequently, they are less likely to be as integrated into social life at university as their middle-class peers. In this chapter, we consider the potential implications of this lack of social integration for working-class students' academic outcomes and mental health. In particular, we review recent research that shows that working-class students' lack of integration at university is associated with poorer academic outcomes and poorer mental health. We conclude with a discussion of potential interventions to increase working-class students' social integration at university.
- Subject
- academic performance; low SES students; mental health; social class; social intergration; university students; working-class students; SDG 10; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1411590
- Identifier
- uon:36358
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783030288563
- Rights
- This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28856-3_6.
- Language
- eng
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