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Direct linkBissell-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
Zhang, Yanyan; Haddad, Eileen; Torres, Bernadeth; Chen, Chuansheng – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Previous research has consistently demonstrated the importance of parents' expectations and adolescents' expectations on adolescents' academic achievement. Less is known, however, about the reciprocal relationships among these constructs. To address this issue, we analyzed two waves of data from the "National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988"…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups, Academic Achievement, Adolescents
Henry, Kimberly L.; Cavanagh, Thomas M.; Oetting, Eugene R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Each year, 1.3 million students fail to graduate, dropping the United States' high school graduation rate to 69%. One of the most salient predictors of high school dropout is socio-economic status (SES), which makes important an improved understanding of the reasons why SES affects educational outcomes. In this study, multilevel mediation models…
Descriptors: Expectation, High Schools, Socioeconomic Status, Graduation Rate
Chang, Esther S.; Heckhausen, Jutta; Greenberger, Ellen; Chen, Chuansheng – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
This study proposed and confirmed three ways in which college students can perceive "shared" agency and two ways in which they can perceive "non-shared" agency with parents when pursuing educational goals in college. Differences and similarities were examined among participants from four ethnic backgrounds (N = 515; 67% female): East Asian…
Descriptors: College Students, Pacific Islanders, Youth, Asian Americans
Spera, Christopher; Wentzel, Kathryn R.; Matto, Holly C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study examined parental aspirations for their children's educational attainment in relation to ethnicity (African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic), parental education, children's academic performance, and parental perceptions of the quality and climate of their children's school with a sample of 13,577 middle and high school parents. All…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Educational Attainment, Academic Aspiration, Whites
Peer reviewedSeginer, Rachel – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1985
This study investigated six differences in the effects of parents' educational expectations and relationship with parents on 105 young Israeli adolescents. Results showed differences in both aspects of family learning environment, including a negative relation for females and a positive relation for males between realistic expectations and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Expectation, Females
