Living in the Big Pond: Adding the Neighborhood as a Frame of Reference for Academic Self-Concept Formation

Research on the big-fish-little-pond effect demonstrates that class-average achievement negatively affects students’ academic self-concept via social comparison processes. The neighborhood-effects literature reports positive effects of advantageous socioeconomic neighborhood conditions on students’...

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Main Authors: Dominik Becker, Moritz Fleischmann, Katarina Wessling, Benjamin Nagengast, Ulrich Trautwein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-09-01
Series:AERA Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584241269816