The Experience of Low-SES Students in Higher Education: Psychological Barriers to Success and Interventions to Reduce Social-Class Inequality

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Re‐Establishing the Social‐Class Order: Restorative Reactions against High‐Achieving, Low‐SES Pupils (2017, background): “Although the dominant discourse in most educational systems is filled with promises of equal opportunity, when lower SES students manage to overcome academic barriers to go the university, they report facing an unwelcoming environment (Jury et al., 2017).”
Perceptions of Socioeconomic Mobility Influence Academic Persistence among Low Socioeconomic Status Students (2017, unknown): “…of people’s personal socioeconomic backgrounds in determining whether school feels congruent with desired future identities such as these (see Jury et al., 2017; Oyserman, 2013; Stephens, Brannon, Markus, & Nelson, 2015), our studies are the first to fully connect students’ perceptions of…”
Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “…et al., 2004) stem from heightened experiences of threat, which cause lower-class students to have lower perceptions of their competencies, feel less self-efficacious in domains of learning, and perform worse academically (Jury et al., 2017; Mendoza-Denton, Downey, Purdie, Davis, & Pietrzak, 2002).”