ERIC Number: ED618282
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 22
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A Longitudinal Study of Academic Identification among African American Males and Females
McMillian, M. Monique; Carr, Marvin; Hodnett, Gentry; Campbell, Frances A.
Online Submission, Journal of Black Psychology v42 n6 p508-529 2016
Disidentification hypothesis researchers have proposed that African American students start school academically identified; however, over time, African American boys tend to disidentify while girls tend to remain identified. This is the first report to follow up a disidentification study of a group of children first examined during elementary school. The current study aimed to determine whether gender differences in discounting, devaluing, and full-blown disidentification had developed among these 94 African Americans by midadolescence. Multiple regression analyses revealed no gender differences in either discounting or full-blown disidentification; however, the evidence indicated that girls valued academics more than boys.
Descriptors: African American Students, Elementary School Students, Gender Differences, Identification (Psychology), Student School Relationship, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Self Esteem, Secondary School Students, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Scores, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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