Social Class Mobility and Positive Psychology

Illuminating social-class identity: The persistence of working-class African American women doctoral students.

“…Self-efficacy is a person’s judgment of and belief in their ability to perform actions required to attain designated outcomes (Bandura, 1986). Finally, resiliency is understood as the capacity to withstand significant challenges that threaten stability, viability, or personal development (Liu & Allmon, 2014; Masten, 2011). The multiple identities related to social class, race, and gender have shaped the experiences of the doctoral student participants in this study; the following review of related literature provides the foundation and context that informed this research.…”