Understanding academic attitudes and achievement in mexican-origin youths: ethnic identity, other-group orientation, and fatalism.
This study tested the relationships among ethnic identity, other-group orientation, fatalism, and 2 dependent variables: attitude toward education and school, and grade point average (GPA). Mexican-origin adolescents (N = 222) completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (J. S. Phinney, 1992), the fatalism scale of the Multiphasic Assessment of Cultural Constructs-Short Form (I. Cuellar, B. Arnold, & G. Gonzalez, 1995), and the attitude scale of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory-High School (C. E. Weinstein & D. R. Palmer, 1990a). Other-group orientation was positively related to attitude and GPA, and a negative relationship between fatalism and attitude was demonstrated. No relationship emerged between ethnic identity and the dependent variables.
Guzmán
Michele R
MR
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. michele.guzman@mail.utexas.edu
Santiago-Rivera
Azara L
AL
Hasse
Richard F
RF
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D003469:Culture; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012933:Social Identification; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology