'Friends and Grades': Peer Preference and Attachment Predict Academic Success among Naskapi Youth
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| Title: | 'Friends and Grades': Peer Preference and Attachment Predict Academic Success among Naskapi Youth |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Burack, Jacob A., D'Arrisso, Alexandra, Ponizovsky, Vladimir, Troop-Gordon, Wendy, Mandour, Tarek, Tootoosis, Curtis, Robinson, Sandy, Iarocci, Grace, Fryberg, Stephanie |
| Source: | School Psychology International. Aug 2013 34(4):371-386. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | 2013 |
| Document Type: | Reports - Research Journal Articles |
| Education Level: | Elementary Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Prediction, Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Attachment Behavior, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Measurement Techniques, Parent Child Relationship, Whites, Power Structure, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Likert Scales, Correlation, Canada Natives, Regression (Statistics) |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada |
| Assessment and Survey Identifiers: | Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0143034312446888 |
| ISSN: | 0143-0343 |
| Abstract: | The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6-11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analyses to handle missing data, only the measures of peer preference and self-report attachment to peers were found to predict school grades. These findings are inconsistent with the oppositional hypothesis that has been forwarded with other minority youths from historically oppressed communities, but rather are evidence for the beneficial effects of "peer power" in this community. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 55 |
| Entry Date: | 2014 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1019707 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6-11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analyses to handle missing data, only the measures of peer preference and self-report attachment to peers were found to predict school grades. These findings are inconsistent with the oppositional hypothesis that has been forwarded with other minority youths from historically oppressed communities, but rather are evidence for the beneficial effects of "peer power" in this community. |
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| ISSN: | 0143-0343 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0143034312446888 |
