First‐Generation Undergraduate Students' Social Support,Depression, and Life Satisfaction |
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| Authors: | Sharon Rae Jenkins Aimee Belanger Melissa Londoño Connally Adriel Boals Kelly M Durón |
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| Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of North Texas. |
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| Abstract: | First‐generation undergraduate students face challenging cross‐socioeconomic cultural transitions into college life. The authors compared first‐ and non‐first‐generation undergraduate students’ social support, posttraumatic stress, depression symptoms, and life satisfaction. First‐generation participants reported less social support from family and friends, more single‐event traumatic stress, less life satisfaction, and marginally more depression symptomatology than non‐first‐generation participants, but significant generation–gender interactions showed first‐generation women doing worse and first‐generation men doing better than others. |
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| Keywords: | first‐generation student social support life satisfaction |
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