Social cognitive predictors of well-being in African college students

Abstract

A four-year qualitative study of working-class students, conducted at a large research university in Canada, found that these students had transformed their habitus through immersion in the social life of the university. They moved away from their old selves, families, and peers. The students reported drifting away from their old friends as a part of growing older and also as a result of growing intellectually. Although the students transformed their habitus, they still experienced uncertainty between their new and former selves. (44 ref)-

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