¡Apoyamos La Educación de Nuestros Hija/os!: How Mexican Parents' College Knowledge, Perceptions, and Concerns Influence the Emotional and Behavioral Support of Their Children to Pursue Higher Education

¡Pertenecemos y tenemos importancia aquí! Exploring Sense of Belonging and Mattering for First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Latinx Undergraduates

“…Belonging is "the social relations, connections, and supportive interactions" (p. 60) wherein context is important (Strayhorn, 2015) as the university's culture and values (e.g., individual competition) often do not align with Latinx students' values (e.g., engaged collaboration; Castillo et al, 2006). As Latinx students report a lower sense of belonging than White students (Johnson et al, 2007;Strayhorn, 2008), familial support is a critical source of encouragement that informs their college aspirations (Jabbar et al, 2017; and academic persistence (Castellanos et al, 2013). In Hurtado and Carter's (1997) seminal study, an increased sense of social support was linked to a higher sense of belonging.…”

Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis

“…Lower-SES parents are not less involved in the college application process because they care less; rather, their economic, social, and cultural resources do not align with institutional standards (DeLuca et al, 2016;Hardie, 2015;Lareau & Cox, 2011;Napolitano et al, 2014). Structurally disadvantaged parents provide other forms of support in the transition from high school to college, including encouragement and emotional support (Auerbach, 2006(Auerbach, , 2007Castellanos et al, 2013;Previ et al, 2020). Nonetheless, when high school personnel provide more information and assistance to children of parents who seek it out, families with greater financial constraints and limited knowledge of higher education are put at a disadvantage (Gast, 2021).…”

Mi Conexión Cultural al Ambiente Educativo: Cultural Congruity as a Mediator within a Psychosociocultural Examination of Californian Latinx High School Students’ Coping

“…The psychosociocultural (PSC) approach (Castellanos & Gloria, 2007; Gloria & Rodriguez, 2000) served as the study’s guiding framework. The PSC framework takes a culturally-holistic and person-environment focused understanding of Latinx students’ educational experiences (e.g., Castellanos et al, 2013). As an integrative meta-model, the psychological (P, self-beliefs and perceptions), social (S, connections and relationships), and cultural (C, campus fit, worldviews, and values) dimensions are theorized to individually and collectively explicate educational processes.…”

“…As an integrative meta-model, the psychological (P, self-beliefs and perceptions), social (S, connections and relationships), and cultural (C, campus fit, worldviews, and values) dimensions are theorized to individually and collectively explicate educational processes. Although originally developed for higher education students (Castellanos & Gloria, 2007), the framework was successfully extended and applied with Latinx parents who had high school students (e.g., Castellanos et al, 2013) and high school students (e.g., Castillo, 2002; Herrera et al, 2019). For the present study, self-efficacy, social support, and ethnic identity were the study’s respective, P, S , and C variables.…”