Culture-based perceptions of academic achievement among low-income elementary students

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 339-350

  Boykin, A Wade ^a,d   Albury, Aretha ^a   Tyler, Kenneth M ^b   Hurley, Eric A ^c   Bailey, Caryn T ^a   Miller, Oronde A ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

African American academic achievement; Communalism; Cultural orientation; Culture; Individualism

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHILD; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646463838     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.11.4.339     Document Type: Article

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