Anglo-American and Mexican American University Students' Estimation of Value Placed on Higher Educational Attainments by Significant Persons in Their Lives
✍ Scribed by Atilano A. Valencia
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 721 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-8534
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✦ Synopsis
This study was designed to determine the degree of value that academically successful university 4th-year students from 2 cultural populations in American society place on higher educational attainments, such as the baccalaureate degree, and to yield information on the value that their parents and 4 other significant persons in their lives place on higher educational attainments based on the students' own perceptions and estimations.
Extant research gives evidence of the wide disparity between the percentage of students from middle-income and higher-income families and the percentage of students from low-income minority families who pursue and complete university studies (Adams & Gullotta. 1989; Van Scotter, Haas. Kraft, & Schott, 1991). On the basis of these data, one can logically surmise that, on the average, people from middle-income and high-income classifications place greater value on higher educational attainments (e.g.. the baccalaureate degree) than do people from low-income classifications. In considering a research study that includes academically successful university students from two cultural groups. one can readily predict that, irrespective of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, there will be no significant difference on the degree of value placed on higher educational attainments by students in both groups. However, a similar assumption cannot be made about the value placed on higher educational attainments by significant persons in these students' lives. The degree of vdlue that these students perceive significant persons