Goal affordances, goal incongruity, and belonging show no association with global life satisfaction among Indigenous STEM students¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Neither communal nor agentic affordances, incongruities, nor belonging correlated with life satisfaction, contrary to hypotheses. → Yu Fanyi 2025

Evidence¶

Yu Fanyi 2025¶

Yu Fanyi, Nyanamba Juliet M., Anderson Brittany, DeerInWater Kathy, Estrada Mica, Hosoda K. Kanoho, Maldonado Natalia, Smith Tiffany, Flores Lilibeth, & Hernandez Paul R. (2025). Navigating Science Pathways: Belonging Mediates the Impact of Goal Congruity on Persistence (but Not Life Satisfaction) Among Indigenous Students. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000967

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Bivariate correlational analyses (Table 3) in the longitudinal study of Indigenous STEM participants tested associations between goal measures at T2 and life satisfaction at T3. The article reports no correlation; equivalence was not tested, and no effect size is printed.

"Contrary to our expectations, life satisfaction was not correlated with goal affordances, goal incongruity, or belonging."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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