Questioning the general self-esteem vaccine: General self-esteem, racial discrimination, and standardised achievement across indigenous and non-indigenous students

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Bodkin Andrews, Gawaian H ^a   Seaton, Marjorie ^a   Nelson, Genevieve F ^a   Craven, Rhonda G ^a   Yeung, Alexander S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Education; Indigenous australians; Invariance testing; Latent interactions; Perceived discrimination; Self esteem; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956460505     PISSN: 10372911     EISSN: 18392520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/ajgc.20.1.1     Document Type: Article

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