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Elaborating the Connection between Social Class and Classism in College
Lauren B Cattaneo1, Wing Yi Chan2, Rachel Shor1
1Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
American Journal of Community Psychology
|March 15, 2019
Summary
Financial stress significantly impacts college students, particularly concerning classism. Immigration status influences exposure to classism, with U.S.-born students perpetuating it.
Area of Science:
- Community Psychology
- Social Justice
- Higher Education
Background:
- College students from marginalized economic backgrounds face significant challenges.
- Classism plays a key role in these student struggles.
- Community Psychology advocates for equitable access to social resources like education.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between social class indicators and classism among college students.
- To develop and utilize a new measure of college student financial stress.
- To explore the moderating roles of race and immigration status.
Main Methods:
- Developed a new measure of college student financial stress.
- Assessed social class indices (financial stress, subjective social status, parental education).
- Assessed classism indices (institutional, interpersonal, citational) in a diverse student sample (N=278).
Main Results:
- Current financial stress showed the strongest relationship with classism.
- Immigration status moderated exposure to citational classism.
- Evidence suggests U.S.-born students higher on the social class ladder perpetuate classism.
Conclusions:
- Financial stress is a critical factor in supporting marginalized students.
- Addressing classist narratives is crucial, especially among higher social class students.
- Future research should consider multiple social class domains and context-specific dimensions of classism.
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