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Beyond Money Matters: A New Model for Understanding the Factors Impacting Black and White College Student Study Abroad Decision-Making.

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正題名/作者:	Beyond Money Matters: A New Model for Understanding the Factors Impacting Black and White College Student Study Abroad Decision-Making./
作者:	Fisher, Mya N.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	362 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-11A.
標題:	Higher education. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28419110
ISBN:	9798728225720

Beyond Money Matters: A New Model for Understanding the Factors Impacting Black and White College Student Study Abroad Decision-Making.
Fisher, Mya N.

Beyond Money Matters: A New Model for Understanding the Factors Impacting Black and White College Student Study Abroad Decision-Making. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 362 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study explores study abroad decision-making among black and white students at a large, public institution to better understand racial disparities in study abroad participation. Study abroad professionals cite a lack of financial resources as a sufficient explanation for low participation rates in study abroad among racial and ethnic minority students. Yet variation in participation rates among ethnic minority groups suggests that factors in addition to, or in place of, financial constraints may play a greater role in study abroad decisions. I asserted that looking at the decision-making processes of black and white study abroad participants and non-participants could illuminate both the factors that inform the process as well as when in the process they are most relevant.I surveyed a total of 508 students at a large, Midwestern, public university using an online questionnaire. Following the questionnaire, I completed 41 interviews with a subset of 38 students and three university administrators. The sample included black and white students at various stages of the decision-making process.Students identified seven categories of factors - academics, finances, the college experience, anxiety, social support, relationships, and campus and community commitments - that inform study abroad decision-making. In-depth interviews with students across participation statuses revealed when in the process the categories were relevant, why and how the categories mattered, and whether a hierarchy or ranking of the categories existed at distinct points during decision-making. Academics, finances, and relationships serve as either motivating or inhibiting factors distinctly across racial groups, participation statuses, and at certain points in decision-making. Money was a concern for all students, not just minority individuals. Differences in student attitudes toward money and the appropriateness of using it to pay for study abroad were rooted in several contextual features such as pre-college experiences, level of responsibility in paying for school, and how college expenses fit into long-term education and life plans. Interpersonal relationships were both facilitators and inhibitors of interest in college study abroad. For some students, these relationships played a role in the decision-making process before students began their university careers; for others, relationships played a role while they were enrolled; and for still others, relationships were relevant at both times.This research contributes to a better understanding of the complexities and nuances involved in study abroad decision-making, by identifying what is important and illuminating the complex contexts within which students make these decisions.

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