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Complicating Understandings of Low-Income Students’ Financial Stress and Well-Being in Order to Inform Institutional Support

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper seeks to enhance understanding of how low-income students navigate financial stress by integrating the asset-based concept of financial well-being and including a focus on the institutional context. Data collected from 378 interviews with students from low-income backgrounds illustrate complex ways that students experience financial stress and financial well-being. By centering students’ perspectives in analysis while also accounting for programmatic and institutional contexts, the authors aim to push theory and practice toward a more nuanced understanding of how to best support students from low-income backgrounds as they navigate affording college and fostering financial well-being.

Source: Journal of Student Financial Aid

DOI: 10.55504/0884-9153.1853

Authors: Khalilah R. Lauderdale, Ralitsa Todorova, Zoë B Corwin

Institution: University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Higher Education Research Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Reduced inequalities, Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4415254103

FWCI: 3.275

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