¡Pertenecemos y tenemos importancia aquí! Exploring Sense of Belonging and Mattering for First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Latinx Undergraduates. Issue 1 (February 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dueñas, Mary; Gloria, Alberta M.
• Is Part Of: Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences. Volume 42:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 95
• Page End: 116
• Publication Date: 2020-02
• Subjects: first-generation college -- Latinx undergraduates -- belonging -- mattering -- student affiliation; Hispanic Americans -- Mental health -- Periodicals; Hispanic Americans -- Psychology -- Periodicals; 300
• DOI: 10.1177/0739986319899734
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0739-9863

Abstract

Using a psychosociocultural approach, we examined the role of motivation, belonging, and congruity relative to sense of mattering for 236 Latinx undergraduates attending a public Midwest research university. Findings revealed the key role of belonging in understanding undergraduates' experiences where belonging accounted for more than half of the variance of mattering as well as mediated the relationship of congruity and mattering. Differences by college generation, academic certificate, and student organization status were also revealed. Practical implications for faculty, administrators, and university personnel and future direction for research are addressed relative to student affiliation and sense of belonging and mattering.