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Šabic, Josip; Jokic, Boris – Educational Studies, 2021
This paper discusses the contributions of variables commonly used within the status attainment and blocked opportunities models in addition to school context variables in predicting pupils' aspirations for higher education prior to the transition to differentiated upper secondary education in Croatia (14-15 years). The findings, arising from a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary Education, Grade 8, Adolescents
Hickey, Emily J.; Nix, Robert L.; Hartley, Sigan L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Little research has examined family emotional climate in the context of having a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The goal of the current study was to determine how the emotional quality of family subsystems (parent--child and parent couple relationships, for both mothers and fathers) combine to create various classes of family emotional…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Correlation
Graff, Cristina Santamaria; McCain, Terrence; Gomez-Vilchis, Veronica – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2013
Many Latina students overcome multiple obstacles to earn university degrees. Five married Latina women with children and seasonal farmworker backgrounds are the focus of this study which is analyzed through resiliency theory to understand factors contributing to their academic resilience. Variables connected to academic success are explored and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Resilience (Psychology), Hispanic American Students, Performance Factors
Mahan, Christine Pour – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explores factors first generation college graduates identify as impacting their successful baccalaureate degree attainment. This research was conducted using qualitative case study method, and a cross case analysis of individual case summaries was completed. Through a review of degree attainment, persistence, and first generation…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Predictor Variables
Bailey, Bruce E.; Matthews, Juliet L. – 1987
Previous research had concluded that a female's relationship with her father was of singular importance in regard to her suicidal risk. This study was designed to test this assumption, and it was hypothesized that the relationship that an adolescent or young adult female had with her mother would be of equal importance in predicting risk for a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Students, Daughters, Fathers
Etaugh, Claire; Gilomen, Gina – 1986
Although mothers have been entering the labor force in increasing numbers, little is known about the characteristics of those who hold varying attitudes toward maternal employment. A study was conducted to identify demographic predictors of attitudes toward working mothers. The Attitudes Toward Working Mothers Scale and a biographical…
Descriptors: College Students, Demography, Employed Parents, Higher Education

Siegfried, William D.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1981
Both male and female college students rated motivators as important, but females also placed importance on environmental factors. The subject's sex could be predicted by both the importance for self and importance for opposite sex ratings. Females' job preferences were related to their mothers' educational achievement. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Family Influence, Higher Education, Mothers

Rice, Kenneth G.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997
Tested an attachment model using 630 late adolescents. The resulting data fit the model reasonably well. The gender of parent differences emerged, in which attachment to father was a more important predictor of social competence than was attachment to mother. Social competence proved a significant predictor of emotional adjustment. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Blacks, College Students
Rice, Phillip L.; Bernstein, Sandy – 1983
The single parent who has to assume the role and the responsibilities of both mother and father provides a different sex-role model for the child than that provided in the two-parent family. Research has indicated that single parents are more androgynous than parents in intact families. To investigate the sex roles of 332 college students (213…
Descriptors: Androgyny, College Students, Family Environment, Higher Education

Scott, Catherine; Burns, Ailsa; Cooney, George – Higher Education, 1998
Motivation for returning to higher education was assessed for 117 adult female college graduates with children and 118 students who had withdrawn before graduation. Motivation was found related to previous education, age, marital status, life cycle stage, employment satisfaction, family support. Interrupters and persisters were generally similar;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Age Differences, College Graduates