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Witkow, Melissa R.; Gillen-O'Neel, Cari; Fuligni, Andrew J. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012
The importance of school-based social engagement for students' school identification and persistence has been well established among adolescents. No work, however, has examined the extent to which social engagement and school identification differ between students from Latino, Asian, and European-American backgrounds enrolled in community versus…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade 12, Identification, Student Attitudes
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Witkow, Melissa R.; Fuligni, Andrew J. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
Much of the research on adolescent friendships and school achievement has focused on in-school friends, ignoring the potential effects of having out-of-school friendships. The goal of this study was to examine the relation between having relatively more in-school friends and school achievement among a sample of over 600 12th grade students from…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Friendship, Adolescents