title: Family background, academic achievement, and educational aspirations as predictors of Australian young adults' educational attainment.
abstract: Relations were examined between family background, adolescents' academic achievement, aspirations, and young adults' educational attainment. Data were analyzed from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (4,500 men, 4,804 women; M age = 20.1 yr., SD = 0.4). Multistage regression analyses indicated that, while family background and academic achievement measures had medium associations with attainment, adolescents' educational aspirations made a large independent contribution to explaining differences in young adults' education attainment.
authors.affiliation: School of Education, University of Adelaide, Australia. Kevin.marjoribanks@adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marjoribanks
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D001315:Australia; D004522:Educational Status; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires