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Bissell-Havran, Joanna M.; Loken, Eric; McHale, Susan M. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Current estimates suggest that by 2015, 60% of college students will be women, a change since 1970 when 59% were men. We investigated family dynamics that might explain the growing gender gap in college attendance, focusing on an ethnically diverse sample of 522 mixed sex sibling dyads from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. We…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, Adolescents, Student Attitudes
Settles, Joanna Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2011
I investigate the differences between Hispanic high school graduates, both male and female, who chose not to attend college, who chose to initially enroll into a two-year college, or who chose to initially enroll into a four-year college or university. The 1994-1995 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health was used to determine how family…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Health, Hispanic Americans, Socioeconomic Status