AUTHOR=Fang Junyan , Huang Xitong , Zhang Minqiang , Huang Feifei , Li Zhe , Yuan Qiting TITLE=The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect on Academic Self-Concept: A Meta-Analysis JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01569 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01569 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The Big-fish-little-Pond effect is well acknowledged as the negative effect of class/school average achievement on student academic self-concept, which profoundly impacts student academic performance and mental development. Although a few studies have been done with regard to this effect, inconsistence exists in the effect size with little success in finding moderators. Here, we present a meta-analysis to synthesize related literatures to reach a summary conclusion on the BFLPE. Furthermore, student age, comparison target, academic self-concept domain, student location, sample size, and publication year were examined as potential moderators. Thirty-three studies with fifty-six effect sizes (total