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- Title
Environmental and Individual Influences on Adolescents' Aspirations: A Moderation-Mediation Model.
- Authors
Kevin Marjoribanks
- Abstract
A moderation-mediation model was constructed to examine relationships among distal family contexts, children's cognitive performance and cognitive attitudes, adolescents' proximal family and school settings, and adolescents' aspirations. The sample in the longitudinal study included 250 female and 250 male 16-year-olds and their parents from Adelaide, Australia. The findings from moderation-mediation investigations and from regression surface analyses indicated that (1) distal family contexts moderate the relations among children's individual characteristics and adolescents' aspirations, (2) the associations between distal family contexts and adolescents' aspirations are mediated, in part, by the adolescents' perceptions of their parents' and teachers' educational capital, (3) there are different patterns for females and males in terms of relationships among distal family contexts, children's individual characteristics, perceptions of proximal settings, and adolescents' aspirations and (4) there are family-context differences in the linear and curvilinear nature of the relations among individual characteristics, proximal settings, and adolescents' aspirations, that also vary between females and males in those family contexts.
- Subjects
TEENAGERS; COMMUNITY-school relationships; GENDER; PARENT-teacher relationships; LONGITUDINAL method; YOUTH
- Publication
Learning Environments Research, 1999, Vol 2, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1387-1579
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1009957806919