Self-Efficacy of First-Generation and Non-First-Generation College Students: The Relationship With Academic Performance and College Adjustment

By Lucila Ramos-Sánchez, Laura Nichols. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Safety Research

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Mehjabeen Khan
2. Anastasia Kitsantas
3. Krista M. Soria
4. A. Winsler
5. Michael J. Stebleton

In Education

1. Marann Byrne
2. Barbara J. Flood
3. A. Winsler
4. Jessica E. Nelson
5. Gabrielle M. D’Lima
6. Nicole M. Stephens
7. Mehjabeen Khan
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In Safety Research

1. Jessica E. Nelson
2. Nicole M. Stephens
3. Mehjabeen Khan
4. Anastasia Kitsantas
5. Céline Darnon
6. A. Smeding
7. A. Winsler
8. Michael J. Stebleton

Citations in the corpus

• Feeling at Home in College: Fortifying School‐Relevant Selves to Reduce Social Class Disparities in Higher Education (2015, background): “…and social activities that foster learning and growth, and facilitate the transfer of cultural capital (Cummins, 2001; Gurin & Nagda, 2006; Gurin et al., 2013; Lapan, Kardash, & Turner, 2002; Pascarella et al., 2004; Ramos-Sanchez & Nichols, 2007; Ryan & Deci, 2006; Stephens et al., 2014).”
• Measuring the Academic Self-Efficacy of First-year Accounting Students (2014, background): “…theory has identified self-efficacy as a key variable associated with both academic adjustment and achievement (Fenollar, Roman and Cuestas, 2007; Ramos-Sanchez and Nichols, 2007; Zajacova, Lynch and Espenshade, 2005), there has been relatively limited consideration of the concept within the…”
• The Experience of Low-SES Students in Higher Education: Psychological Barriers to Success and Interventions to Reduce Social-Class Inequality (2017, background): “…perceptions of their competencies, report lower self-efficacy, and have lower self-reported perceptions of their own intelligence than do high-SES students (Hellman & Harbeck, 1997; Ivcevic & Kaufman, 2013, Kudrna, Furnham, & Swami, 2010; Ramos-Sánchez & Nichols, 2007; Stebleton & Soria, 2012).”
• Academic Self-Efficacy, Coping, and Academic Performance in College (2013, background): “Ramos-Sanchez and Nichols (2007) conducted a study on 192 freshman students to examine differences in academic selfefficacy levels between first generation (i.e., students without a college graduate parent) and non-first generation college students (i.e., students who have a college graduate…”
• Ethnic and Gender Differences in First-Year College Students’ Goal Orientation, Self-Efficacy, and Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation (2014, background): “Students with higher levels of confidence in their abilities also tend to be highly engaged in high school (Caraway, Tucker, Reinke, & Hall, 2003) and better adjusted to college (Ramos-Sanchez & Nichols, 2007).”
• First-Generation Students' Sense of Belonging, Mental Health, and Use of Counseling Services at Public Research Universities (2014, background): “Sociologists Rosenberg and McCullough (1981) were among the first to label and operationalize the construct, noting that “it is fair to conclude that mattering is a motive; the feeling that others depend on us, are interested in us, are concerned with our fate, or experience us as an ego-extension e”