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Big Fish in Little Ponds Aspire More: Mediation and Cross-Cultural Generalizability of School-Average Ability Effects on Self-Concept and Career Aspirations in Science

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Nagengast, Benjamin; Marsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012

Being schooled with other high-achieving peers has a detrimental influence on students' self-perceptions: School-average and class-average achievement have a negative effect on academic self-concept and career aspirations--the big-fish-little-pond effect. Individual achievement, on the other hand, predicts academic self-concept and career…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Developed Nations, Developing Nations