Culturally distinctive and academic socialization: Direct and interactive relationships with African American adolescents' academic adjustment

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-212

  Cooper, Shauna M ^a   Smalls, Ciara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic; Academic socialization; Adolescents; African American; Cultural socialization; Racial socialization

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEGRO; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PARENTING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 77950347545     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-009-9404-1     Document Type: Article

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