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Peer reviewedBogenschneider, Karen – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1997
Argues that systematically investigating proximal processes as unifying and overriding forces in human development may be an overlooked aspect of contemporary developmental science. A study of 10,000 high school students showed that those whose parents were more involved in school performed better in school, irrespective of the parents' gender or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, High Schools, Individual Development
Benjamin, Michael – 1988
In response to a gap in the literature on student development with respect to the role of the family, and anecdotal evidence that the family's influence on the college student's development is profound, a review of the relevant literature on higher education, social psychology, psychiatry, sociology of the family, and family therapy was…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Attendance, College Students, Colleges
