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" Social Justice Messaging and Self-Efficacy: "
Monje-Paulson, Laura Nicole
Sax, Linda J;Pizzolato, Jane E
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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915546
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Monje-Paulson, Laura Nicole
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Social Justice Messaging and Self-Efficacy:\ Monje-Paulson, Laura NicoleSax, Linda J;Pizzolato, Jane E
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UCLA
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2016
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2016
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The primary objective of this study was to examine social justice messaging sent to Student Affairs (SA) professionals from institutions and professional organizations. The secondary objective of this study was to explore the application of a social cognitive framework that better emphasizes the role of the environment and social justice self-efficacy as determinants of social justice choices. As the fields of Student Affairs and Higher Education strive to create campus communities that support all students and address inequities both on the campus level and in society, understanding the dynamic process of why SA professionals choose to engage in social justice work informs efforts toward these ends. This mixed method sequential study addressed the study’s research questions through two main approaches. First, content analysis was used to investigate messages from a sample of 40 higher education institutions and Student Affairs professional organizations’ journals and magazines. These messages speak to the higher education context comprised of professional and institutional environments in which SA professionals could be influenced to engage with social justice. Documents used for this analysis included institutional mission statements, strategic goals, training documents, webpage materials, and articles from the past five years of SA practice-based magazines and scholarly journals (e.g., Journal of College Student Development, About Campus). The second research question explored relationships between social cognitive variables through structural equation modeling (SEM). The aim of this part of the study was to investigate the social justice choice process for SA professionals in order to understand how various individual and environmental variables influence social justice goals and actions. The data come from a survey of SA professionals working at a subsample of 21 institutions from the original 40 institutions selected for this study. Endogenous variables of interest center on social justice self-efficacy, goals, and actions. Exogenous variables of interest include personal characteristics and background contexts, multicultural competence, and institutional environments. The findings of this study provide insight into the current state of social justice efforts for SA professional organizations, institutions, and SA professionals. Current social justice efforts tend to emphasize education as a tool for social justice and rely on person-level initiatives as a means toward social change. The findings from the SEM suggest that both social justice preparedness and perceptions of institutional support play important roles in predicting social justice choices.
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Sax, Linda J;Pizzolato, Jane E
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