For many first-generation college students, the clash between collectivistic values learned at home and individualistic norms present in postsecondary institutions can create a tension that’s almost too much to bear.

That “cultural mismatch,” said California State University, Northridge assistant professor of psychology Yolanda Vasquez-Salgado can impact a student’s health and academic performance — including their grades and decision to stay in school.

Vasquez-Salgado, a first-generation college student and daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico, has received a $725,000 NIH-SuRE First Award from the National Institutes of Health’s Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) program to study the impact cultural mismatch has on Latinx college students attending Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Her findings could affect how colleges and universities across the country meet the needs of an increasingly diverse and often first-generation college student population…

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