Relative deprivation: A theoretical and meta-analytic review

HJ Smith, TF Pettigrew, GM Pippin… - Personality and …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Relative deprivation (RD) is the judgment that one is worse off compared to some standard
accompanied by feelings of anger and resentment. Social scientists use RD to predict a …

Social comparison in the classroom: A review

P Dijkstra, H Kuyper, G Van der Werf… - Review of …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reviews research conducted on social comparison processes in the classroom
since Festinger proposed his theory of social comparison. It covers the theoretical framework …

[HTML][HTML] The big-fish–little-pond-effect stands up to critical scrutiny: Implications for theory, methodology, and future research

HW Marsh, M Seaton, U Trautwein, O Lüdtke… - Educational psychology …, 2008 - Springer
The big-fish–little-pond effect (BFLPE) predicts that equally able students have lower
academic self-concepts (ASCs) when attending schools where the average ability levels of …

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.

B Nagengast, HW Marsh - Journal of educational psychology, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Clarifying the role of social comparison in the big-fish–little-pond effect (BFLPE): An integrative study.

P Huguet, F Dumas, H Marsh, I Régner… - Journal of personality …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
It has been speculated that the big-fish–little-pond effect (BFLPE; the negative impact of
highly selective academic settings on academic self-concept) is a consequence of invidious …

Within-school social comparison: How students perceive the standing of their class predicts academic self-concept.

U Trautwein, O Lüdtke, HW Marsh… - Journal of educational …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Results from prior research indicate that a student's academic self-concept is negatively
influenced by the achievement of others in his or her school (a frame of reference effect) and …

Dimensional comparison theory: An extension of the internal/external frame of reference effect on academic self-concept formation

HW Marsh, H Kuyper, M Seaton, PD Parker… - Contemporary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract In a comprehensive study (15,356 Dutch 9th grade students from 651 classes in 95
schools) we empirically tested the dimensional comparison theory (DCT) propositions …

Big-fish-little-pond effect: Generalizability and moderation—Two sides of the same coin

M Seaton, HW Marsh… - American educational …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Research evidence for the big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) has demonstrated that
attending high-ability schools has a negative effect on academic self-concept. Utilizing …

Self-concept: Determinants and consequences of academic self-concept in school contexts

U Trautwein, J Möller - Psychosocial skills and school systems in the 21st …, 2016 - Springer
Self-concepts are subjective beliefs about the qualities that characterize us, with academic
self-concepts describing our self-beliefs about our intellectual strengths and weaknesses …

Earning its place as a pan-human theory: Universality of the big-fish-little-pond effect across 41 culturally and economically diverse countries.

M Seaton, HW Marsh, RG Craven - Journal of Educational …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
For more than 2 decades, big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) research has demonstrated that
students in high-ability classes and schools have lower academic self-concepts than their …