Janssen, Sophia (2022) The mediating effect of sense of belonging on the relationship between perceived dissimilarity and academic performance. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the suggested effect of perceived dissimilarity on perceived academic performance and sense of belonging as a mediating factor. Furthermore, we investigate the theorized effect of institutional commitment of diversity on the relationship between sense of belonging and perceived academic performance. We used a convenience sample and provided our participants with an online questionnaire to measure the variables. We ran a correlational analysis to determine if we can continue with the mediation analysis. We also conducted a process procedure for a moderation analysis. Our main model was found to be non-significant, however institutional commitment to diversity was acted as a positive moderator on sense of belonging and perceived academic performance. Additionally, we found some significant results for our main effect with a subset of our data through an exploratory analysis. These results suggest that when a university actively encourages and supports diversity within its student body, students have an increased sense of belonging as well as perceived academic performance. Furthermore, perceived dissimilarity did have a negative effect on perceived academic performance when the year of study is taken into consideration. This implies that the focus of intervention for maximized performance and well-being should focus on lowering perceived dissimilarity and increasing sense of belonging and institutional commitment to diversity. Keywords: perceived dissimilarity, sense of belonging, perceived academic performance, institutional commitment to diversity, student identity centrality
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Huis, M.A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2022 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2022 08:57 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/298 |
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