Theorizing multidimensional identity negotiation: reflections on the lived experiences of first-generation college students.
Drawing from recent research on first-generation college (FGC) students, this chapter advances an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding how these students enact multiple aspects of their personal, cultural, and social identities. I use dialectical and cross-cultural adaptation theories as a foundation to extend examinations of how diverse FGC students negotiate the alien culture of the academy against that of home. In this regard, college is situated as a pivotal point of development, and successful negotiation of identity tensions is represented as a key factor in academic success.
Gender and Women's Studies Program, Western Michigan University, USA.
Mark P
MP
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000367:Age Factors; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities