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Capdevielle-Mougnibas, Valérie; Courtinat-Camps, Amélie – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
This article examines the existing relations between the social background, the cognitive skills, the sense of schooling experience, the relation to learning and the professional project in the construction of the meaning of their course choice for French boys living in working-class families and guided to vocational studies. It presents the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
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Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
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Córdova, David; Heinze, Justin E.; Mistry, Ritesh; Salas-Wright, Christopher P.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined the effects of family functioning trajectories on sexual risk behaviors and STI in adolescents. A sample of 850 predominantly (80%) Black adolescents from Michigan, United States, was assessed at baseline, 12, 24, and 36 months postbaseline. Adolescents were from working-class families with a mean age of 14.9 years (SD = 0.64, Range =…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Correlation