Racial-ethnic identity in mid-adolescence: Content and change as predictors of academic achievement

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1155-1169

  Altschul, Inna ^a   Oyserman, Daphna ^a   Bybee, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AWARENESS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33748993980     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00926.x     Document Type: Article

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