Malin K Lilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 119770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malin K Lilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malin K |
| FAMILY NAME | Lilley |
| SIGNATURE | LILLEY M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University – Central Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6125-5942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pathways to Purpose: Belonging, Stress, and Optimism in Relation to Career Aspirations of Students
College students’ career aspirations are critical to their professional development. However, limited research has investigated career aspirations within the context of Hispanic Majority Institutions (HMIs). To address this gap, we examined relationships between belongingness, stress, optimism, and career aspirations and offered a mediation framework to clarify their associations using self-reported data from undergraduates ( N = 261) attending a…
Peers Like Me: Social Comparison Framing and Self Perceptions for College Students Attending a Hispanic Majority Institution
We conducted a fully crossed between-subjects experiment to examine how manipulations of the direction and focus of a social comparison target influenced outcomes for students (N = 184) attending a Hispanic Majority Institution. Results showed that participants perceived themselves as most similar to high-achieving peers when asked to write about similarities, but perceived themselves as better off than low-achieving peers regardless of prompt an…
Associations Between Intellectual Humility, Academic Motivation, and Academic Self-Efficacy
Previous research has shown that intellectual humility (IH) could predict important academic outcomes. This study explores the associations between IH, four different types of academic motivation (intrinsic motivation-to know and -to accomplish, extrinsic motivation-external regulation, amotivation) and academic self-efficacy. Undergraduate students ( N = 261) from a Hispanic majority institution completed validated measures assessing these varia…
The Relevance of Social Comparison to Academic Self-Concept for Undergraduates at Hispanic Majority Institutions
Hispanic majority institutions have over 50% Hispanic student enrollment. We examined how social comparison may affect academic self-concept in this unique higher education landscape. We found that students who compare themselves to others who are worse off tend to experience a greater sense of academic self-concept in three domains than when they compare themselves to others who are better off. These findings have implications for improving acad…
Social Comparison Processes of Hispanic Students at Hispanic Majority Institutions
This paper describes the types of social comparison used by Hispanic students at a Hispanic Majority Institution through two studies ( N = 406). We found that students engaged in upward identification more often than downward identification, downward contrast, and upward contrast. However, when comparing themselves on an academic measure, downward identification and upward contrast became relatively more frequent. Additionally, downward identific…
Social Comparison, Belongingness, Self-Doubt, and Stress: The Case of Hispanic Students at Hispanic Majority Institutions
Social comparison processes can affect academic and interpersonal outcomes for minoritized college students. However, the literature has not addressed how these processes play out for Hispanic students who attend Hispanic Majority Institutions, in which Hispanic students comprise more than 50% of the population. In this study, such students ( N = 191) completed online assessments for social comparison orientation (SCO), belongingness, academic se…
Self-handicapping in object play: How belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) make play difficult
Although observed in animals from various taxa, object play is not well studied. While studying object play in managed care belugas (Delphinapterus leucas), we noticed that, in some cases, the belugas self-handicap their play. For example, a beluga may push a ball onto a ledge, so that the object can only be reached by the beluga beaching itself. Self-handicapping has been described in locomotor and social play, but is rarely, if ever, reported i…
Keep Calm and Be Humble: Can Intellectual Humility Predict Test Anxiety
Test anxiety is common and may lead to a range of negative outcomes, including poor exam performance. Therefore, it is important to explore psychological predictors of test anxiety. In this paper, we examined whether intellectual humility can predict test anxiety. In Study 1, college students ( N = 181) completed an intellectual humility measure with four subscales and two different measures of test anxiety. In Study 2 ( N = 196), a community sam…
Context Matters: Stress for Minority Students Who Attend Minority-Majority Universities
Research on college student stress has typically focused on institutions where the student population is predominately White and continuing-generation. This study explored student stress in a unique context-a public regional university where the majority of students are Latinx, first-generation (FGCS), and of low socioeconomic status (SES). Of the 355 participants in the study, 72.4% self-identified as Latinx and 59.7% were FGCS. Additionally, on…
Context Matters: Stress for Minority Students Who Attend Minority-Majority Universities
Research on college student stress has typically focused on institutions where the student population is predominately White and continuing-generation. This study explored student stress in a unique context-a public regional university where the majority of students are Latinx, first-generation (FGCS), and of low socioeconomic status (SES). Of the 355 participants in the study, 72.4% self-identified as Latinx and 59.7% were FGCS. Additionally, on…
Context Matters: Stress for Minority Students Who Attend Minority-Majority Universities
Research on college student stress has typically focused on institutions where the student population is predominately White and continuing-generation. This study explored student stress in a unique context-a public regional university where the majority of students are Latinx, first-generation (FGCS), and of low socioeconomic status (SES). Of the 355 participants in the study, 72.4% self-identified as Latinx and 59.7% were FGCS. Additionally, on…
Keep Calm and Be Humble: Can Intellectual Humility Predict Test Anxiety
Test anxiety is common and may lead to a range of negative outcomes, including poor exam performance. Therefore, it is important to explore psychological predictors of test anxiety. In this paper, we examined whether intellectual humility can predict test anxiety. In Study 1, college students ( N = 181) completed an intellectual humility measure with four subscales and two different measures of test anxiety. In Study 2 ( N = 196), a community sam…
Self-handicapping in object play: How belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) make play difficult
Although observed in animals from various taxa, object play is not well studied. While studying object play in managed care belugas (Delphinapterus leucas), we noticed that, in some cases, the belugas self-handicap their play. For example, a beluga may push a ball onto a ledge, so that the object can only be reached by the beluga beaching itself. Self-handicapping has been described in locomotor and social play, but is rarely, if ever, reported i…
Social Comparison Processes of Hispanic Students at Hispanic Majority Institutions
This paper describes the types of social comparison used by Hispanic students at a Hispanic Majority Institution through two studies ( N = 406). We found that students engaged in upward identification more often than downward identification, downward contrast, and upward contrast. However, when comparing themselves on an academic measure, downward identification and upward contrast became relatively more frequent. Additionally, downward identific…
Social Comparison, Belongingness, Self-Doubt, and Stress: The Case of Hispanic Students at Hispanic Majority Institutions
Social comparison processes can affect academic and interpersonal outcomes for minoritized college students. However, the literature has not addressed how these processes play out for Hispanic students who attend Hispanic Majority Institutions, in which Hispanic students comprise more than 50% of the population. In this study, such students ( N = 191) completed online assessments for social comparison orientation (SCO), belongingness, academic se…
Associations Between Intellectual Humility, Academic Motivation, and Academic Self-Efficacy
Previous research has shown that intellectual humility (IH) could predict important academic outcomes. This study explores the associations between IH, four different types of academic motivation (intrinsic motivation-to know and -to accomplish, extrinsic motivation-external regulation, amotivation) and academic self-efficacy. Undergraduate students ( N = 261) from a Hispanic majority institution completed validated measures assessing these varia…
The Relevance of Social Comparison to Academic Self-Concept for Undergraduates at Hispanic Majority Institutions
Hispanic majority institutions have over 50% Hispanic student enrollment. We examined how social comparison may affect academic self-concept in this unique higher education landscape. We found that students who compare themselves to others who are worse off tend to experience a greater sense of academic self-concept in three domains than when they compare themselves to others who are better off. These findings have implications for improving acad…
Pathways to Purpose: Belonging, Stress, and Optimism in Relation to Career Aspirations of Students
College students’ career aspirations are critical to their professional development. However, limited research has investigated career aspirations within the context of Hispanic Majority Institutions (HMIs). To address this gap, we examined relationships between belongingness, stress, optimism, and career aspirations and offered a mediation framework to clarify their associations using self-reported data from undergraduates ( N = 261) attending a…
Peers Like Me: Social Comparison Framing and Self Perceptions for College Students Attending a Hispanic Majority Institution
We conducted a fully crossed between-subjects experiment to examine how manipulations of the direction and focus of a social comparison target influenced outcomes for students (N = 184) attending a Hispanic Majority Institution. Results showed that participants perceived themselves as most similar to high-achieving peers when asked to write about similarities, but perceived themselves as better off than low-achieving peers regardless of prompt an…
Psychology (7 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Belongingness (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)