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Adolescents' Educational Outcomes: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Peer Network Importance

Journal of youth and adolescence, 2009-10, Vol.38 (9), p.1264-1279 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Springer Science & Business Media Oct 2009 ;Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 2009 ;ISSN: 0047-2891 ;EISSN: 1573-6601 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10964-009-9418-8 ;PMID: 19669905 ;CODEN: JYADA6

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Title:
Adolescents' Educational Outcomes: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Peer Network Importance
Author: Goza, Franklin ; Ryabov, Igor
Subjects: Academic Achievement ; Adolescent ; Adolescents ; African American Students ; African Americans ; Asian American Students ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Biological and medical sciences ; Child and School Psychology ; Classification ; Clinical Psychology ; Data collection ; Desegregation ; Developmental psychology ; Educational Attainment ; Educational psychology ; Educational Status ; Empirical Research ; Ethnic Groups ; Ethnicity ; Female ; Friendship ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Grade Point Average ; Graduation ; Health Psychology ; High School Students ; Hispanic American Students ; History of Psychology ; Humans ; Hypotheses ; Interpersonal Relations ; Interracial relationships ; Law and Psychology ; Longitudinal Studies ; Low Income Groups ; Male ; Middle class ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Minority Groups ; Minority students ; Models, Theoretical ; Peer Group ; Peer Relationship ; Peers ; Psychology ; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry ; Psychology. Psychophysiology ; Pupil and student. Academic achievement and failure ; Race ; Racial Composition ; Racial Differences ; Sample size ; School environment ; Schools ; Secondary schools ; Segregation ; Social capital ; Social Networks ; Social Status ; Social Support ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Socioeconomic Status ; Students ; Studies ; Teenagers ; White Students
Is Part Of: Journal of youth and adolescence, 2009-10, Vol.38 (9), p.1264-1279
Description: Little attention has been paid to the role of peer social capital in the school context, especially as a predictor of adolescents' academic outcomes. This study uses a nationally representative (N = 13,738, female = 51%), longitudinal sample and multilevel models to examine how peer networks impact educational achievement and attainment. Results reveal that, in addition to those factors typically associated with academic outcomes (e.g., school composition), two individual-level peer network measures, SES and heterogeneity, had significant effects. Although educational attainment was generally worse in low SES schools, for all ethnic groups higher attainment was associated with attending schools with higher concentrations of minority students. At the individual level, however, membership in integrated peer networks was negatively related to high school graduation for Asians, Latinos, and non-Hispanic whites, and to GPA for Asians and Latinos, as only African-American achievement increased in more racially/ethnically heterogeneous peer networks. Our results suggest that co-ethnic and co-racial peer friendship networks should not be viewed as obstacles to the educational accomplishments of today's youth. In fact, in many cases the opposite was true, as results generally support the ethnic social capital hypothesis while providing little corroboration for oppositional culture theory. Results also suggest that co-racial and co-ethnic ties may mediate the negative effects of school choice, or more specifically of between-school socioeconomic segregation. Consequently, we conclude that school policies aimed at socioeconomic desegregation are likely to beneficially affect the academic outcomes of all race/ethnic groups.
Publisher: Boston: Boston : Springer US
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0047-2891
EISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-009-9418-8
PMID: 19669905
CODEN: JYADA6
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Adolescents' Educational Outcomes: Racial and Ethnic Variations in Peer Network Importance

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;Copyright Springer Science & Business Media Oct 2009 ;Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 2009 ;ISSN: 0047-2891 ;EISSN: 1573-6601 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10964-009-9418-8 ;PMID: 19669905 ;CODEN: JYADA6

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