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Froiland, John Mark; Worrell, Frank C. – Educational Psychology, 2017
This longitudinal study examined the relationships among parental autonomy support, student intrinsic life goals (i.e. community feeling), student expectations for long-term educational attainment and later academic performance (measured by GPA) in 227 students in an ethnically and racially diverse high school. Hypotheses were tested with…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Expectation, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
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Marsiglia, Flavio F.; Williams, Lela Rankin; Ayers, Stephanie L.; Booth, Jaime M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
Objectives: This article reports the effects of a culturally grounded parenting intervention to strengthen positive parenting practices. Method: The intervention was designed and tested with primarily Mexican origin parents in a large urban setting of the southwestern United States using an ecodevelopmental approach. Parents (N = 393) were…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parents, Mexican Americans, Culturally Relevant Education