Lawrie Smaranda Ioana, Kim Heejung S
Department of Psychology, Providence College, Providence, RI, United States.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2024 Feb 14;15:1355526. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355526. eCollection 2024.
Extensive research has documented the psychological, social, and academic predicament of first-generation college students. However, basic psychological mechanisms underlying the challenges experienced by these students have been understudied. Taking a cultural psychology perspective, the present research considers the role of emotional (mis)match as a key mechanism for explaining first-generation students' lowered well-being. A sample of 344 American undergraduate students completed a survey designed to measure two aspects of emotional processing: (1) - how accurately students perceive emotional reactions of majority-culture students (continuing-generation junior and senior students who have been socialized into college culture), and (2) -how similar students' emotions are to the emotions experienced by majority-culture students. Emotional Accuracy predicted positive outcomes, in general, but was lower among first-generation students. Unexpectedly, Emotional Similarity predicted negative student outcomes. As one of the first studies addressing basic psychological mechanisms in college adjustment, these findings underscore the importance of understanding the roles that specific emotional processes play in social adjustment.
大量研究记录了第一代大学生在心理、社会和学业方面的困境。然而，这些学生所面临挑战背后的基本心理机制却未得到充分研究。从文化心理学的角度来看，本研究认为情感（不）匹配的作用是解释第一代学生幸福感降低的关键机制。344名美国本科生参与了一项调查，该调查旨在测量情感处理的两个方面：（1）学生对主流文化学生（已融入大学文化的连续代大三和大四学生）的情感反应感知的准确程度，以及（2）学生的情感与主流文化学生所经历情感的相似程度。总体而言，情感准确性预示着积极的结果，但在第一代学生中较低。出乎意料的是，情感相似性预示着负面的学生结果。作为首批探讨大学适应中基本心理机制的研究之一，这些发现强调了理解特定情感过程在社会适应中所起作用的重要性。
