Competence under challenge: exploring the protective influence of parental support and ethnic identity in Latino college students.
This longitudinal study examined the protective influence of psychological and family factors on academic achievement in 123 Latino college (101 Mexican American, 14 Central American, 8 mixed Mexican/Central American) students. Three cultural resources--ethnic identity, family interdependence, and parental support--were hypothesized as protective factors that modify the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage in a positive direction. The pattern of findings suggests that Latino students with greater psychological and family resources evidence greater academic achievement. After covarying between-person differences in gender and generational status, both ethnic identity and parental support moderated the effects of low socioeconomic status on academic achievement.
Ong
Anthony D
AD
Department of Human Development, G77 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA. aong@nd.edu
Phinney
Jean S
JS
Dennis
Jessica
J
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012933:Social Identification; D012944:Social Support; D012945:Social Values; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*