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Big-Fish--Little-Pond effect on academic self-concept: A cross-cultural (26-country) test of the negative effects of academically selective schools.
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Academically selective schools are intended to affect academic self-concept positively, but theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that the effects are negative. The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), an application of social comparison theory to educational settings, posits that a student will have a lower academic self-concept in an academically selective school than in a nonselective school. This study, the largest cross-cultural study of the BFLPE ever undertaken, tested theoretical predictions for nationally representative samples of approximately 4,000 15-year-olds from each of 26 countries (N = 103,558) who completed the same self-concept instrument and achievement tests. Consistent with the BFLPE, the effects of school-average achievement were negative in all 26 countries (M beta = -.20, SD = .08), demonstrating the BFLPE's cross-cultural generalizability.
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- Authors
- Marsh, H. W., & Hau, K.-T.
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 364-376
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W2053043398
- Cited by
- 717
- References
- 60
- FWCI
- 24.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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