The Link Between Financial Stress, Financial Self-Efficacy, and Initial College Success Among Low-Income Students

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Abstract

Utilizing data from the Wisconsin Scholars Longitudinal Study, this research examines the role of financial stress and financial self-efficacy beliefs in predicting low-income students' initial college success measured by persistence, GPA, and credit accumulation over the first two semesters of college.

Author

• Xueli Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison