Living in the Big Pond: Adding the Neighborhood as a Frame of Reference for Academic Self-Concept Formation

• Main Authors: Dominik Becker (Author), Moritz Fleischmann (Author), Katarina Wessling (Author), Benjamin Nagengast (Author), Ulrich Trautwein (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Research on the big-fish-little-pond effect demonstrates that class-average achievement negatively affects students' academic self-concept via social comparison processes. The neighborhood-effects literature reports positive effects of advantageous socioeconomic neighborhood conditions on stude...