Understanding academic attitudes and achievement in Mexican-origin youths: Ethnic identity, other-group orientation, and fatalism

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-15

  Guzman, Michele R ^a   Santiago Rivera, Azara L ^b   Haase, Richard F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Attitude; Education; Ethnic identity; Mexican origin adolescents; School

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; SCHOOL;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14644426015     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.11.1.3     Document Type: Article

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