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Ursula Hinostroza-Castillo; Ángel Huguet; Judit Janés; Cecilio Lapresta-Rey – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
Located in the province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), this study aims to identify and analyze the predictors of linguistic acculturation preferences of autochthonous high-school students toward their peers of Latin American descent. Autochthonous high-school students (N = 349) filled a questionnaire measuring linguistic acculturation and a series…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Acculturation, Preferences
Christian A. Latino; Justine Radunzel; Jason D. Way; Edgar Sanchez; Alex Casillas; Saba Rasheed Ali; III D. Martin Kivlighan – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
First-generation college students (FGCS), nearly 50% of which identify as Hispanic, are an underserved population. The psychosociocultural theoretical framework posits that individual, environmental, and cultural factors contribute to the academic success of Hispanic students. This study examined the relationship between these factors (i.e.,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Kho, Carmen; White, Rebecca M. B.; Zhao, Chang; Knight, George P.; Roche, Kathleen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined the relations between normative developmental changes of familism values and later internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Latinx adolescents from an emerging immigrant community. The sample included 547 Latinx adolescents (55.4% female; baseline M[subscript age] = 12.80; SD = 1.03) residing in the Southeastern United…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Latin Americans, Hispanic American Students, Emotional Adjustment
Greene, Makeda Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the increase of West Indian families of African descent acculturating into new communities and cultivating spaces for their cultures and customs to flourish, there is an increased significance for continued quantitative analyses to examine the cultural patterns, values and practices that take place within the West Indian familial structures…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology)
Kim, Yeonwoo; Calzada, Esther J.; Barajas-Gonzalez, R. Gabriela; Huang, Keng-Yen; Brotman, Laurie M.; Castro, Ashley; Pichardo, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Early academic achievement has been shown to predict high school completion, but there have been few studies of the predictors of early academic success focused on Latino students. Using longitudinal data from 750 Mexican and Dominican American families, this study examined a cultural model of parenting and early academic achievement. While Latino…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement
Cano, Miguel Angel; Castillo, Linda G.; Davis, Matthew J.; Lopez-Arenas, Araceli; Vaquero, Juana; Thompson, Keisha V.; Saldivar, Isaac M. – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2012
This study investigated the influence of psychocultural variables (e.g., acculturation, enculturation, ethnic identity) and personality characteristics in relation to educational expectations among 345 Latino middle school students in the U.S. Results from a path model indicate that 24.4% of the variance of educational expectations was accounted…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Acculturation, Predictor Variables, Personality
Pinder, Patrice Juliet – Online Submission, 2013
The central goal of this study was to explore the influence of the African Caribbean students' home life on their chemistry achievement. The study utilizes a mixed-methods approach and two research designs. A quantitative correlational design (using Spearman Rho correlational analysis) and a phenomenological qualitative design were used. For the…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Chemistry, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants
Ng, Florrie Fei-Yin; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Sze, Irene Nga-Lam – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Preschoolers' inhibitory control and early math skills were concurrently and longitudinally examined in 255 Chinese, African American, Dominican, and Mexican 4-year-olds in the United States. Inhibitory control at age 4, assessed with a peg-tapping task, was associated with early math skills at age 4 and predicted growth in such skills from age 4…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Predictor Variables, Predictive Validity
Sprang, Ginny; Craig, Carlton; Clark, James – Child Welfare, 2011
This study describes predictors of secondary traumatic stress and burnout in a national sample of helping professionals, with a specific focus on the unique responses of child welfare (CW) workers. Specific worker and exposure characteristics are examined as possible predictors of these forms of occupational distress in a sample of 669…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Altruism, Child Welfare, Quality of Life
Murillo, F. Javier; Roman, Marcela – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
The purpose of this investigation is to determine the incidence of school infrastructure and resources and its impact on the academic performance of primary education students in Latin America. A 4-level multilevel model was applied to the data of the Second Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (SERCE) conducted by UNESCO, which researched…
Descriptors: Incidence, School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans
Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe; Lugo, Maria Ana; Santos, Maria Emma – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper studies multidimensional poverty for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay for the period 1992-2006. The approach overcomes the limitations of the two traditional methods of poverty analysis in Latin America (income-based and unmet basic needs) by combining income with five other dimensions: school attendance for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sanitation, Heads of Households, Income
Dawson, Beverly Araujo; Panchanadeswaran, Subadra – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2010
The present study examined the relationship between discriminatory experiences and acculturative stress levels among a sample of 283 Dominican immigrants. Findings from a linear regression analysis revealed that experiences of daily racial discrimination and major racist events were significant predictors of acculturative stress after controlling…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Ethnic Groups, Acculturation, Regression (Statistics)
Crosby, Danielle A.; Dunbar, Angel S. – Migration Policy Institute, 2012
Policy and academic interest in young children has grown substantially in recent years, prompted in part by advancements in the scientific understanding of early childhood and mounting evidence of the importance of early experiences for later development. Of particular concern is the finding that achievement disparities among different racial,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Pregnancy, Academic Aspiration, Immigrants
Roman Maqueira, Juana – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the development of employability skills and entrepreneurial innovative attitude in Latin American youth entrepreneurs 18-29 years of age after participating in at least 1 year of an entrepreneurship experience. The design involved analyzing two groups. The first was a coached group…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Income, Work Experience, Information Networks
Summer Reading: Predicting Adolescent Word Learning from Aptitude, Time Spent Reading, and Text Type
Lawrence, Joshua Fahey – Reading Psychology, 2009
Mostly low-income African American and Hispanic teens (N = 192) were tested in (a) passage comprehension, (b) vocabulary ability, (c) cloze task performance, and (d) listening comprehension in the spring and vocabulary in the fall. Students were surveyed about reading (a) narrative, (b) expository, (c) teen culture, and (d) online texts.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Profiles, African Americans
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