Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Educational Expectations of Adolescents: Does Pursuing Higher Education Mean Something Different to Latino Students Compared to White and Black Students?

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1399-1412

  Turcios Cotto, Viana Y ^a   Milan, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Future expectations; Hispanics; Latinos; Racial ethnic differences

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; CONNECTICUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GOALS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL VALUES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84881546948     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9845-9     Document Type: Article

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