Promoting academic achievement: the role of peers and family in the academic engagement of african american adolescents

Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community
Pia StanardKristal Owens

Abstract

While grades are frequently used as indicators of academic achievement, they provide little information about the processes that encourage academic success. Academic engagement, on the other hand, evaluates thoughts, motivations, and behaviors that predict achievement and helps elucidate achievement mechanisms. Understanding academic engagement can facilitate an examination of the forces influencing and hindering achievement and can guide researchers and educators in developing and evaluating effective interventions for increasing academic success. Grounded in ecological theory, this study attempts to understand the influence of family cohesion and peer risky behavior on academic engagement. First, the study explores how socializing with peers who engage in risky behaviors (e.g., sexual behaviors, truancy, or substance use) influences academic engagement and its components (i.e., interest in school, education utility value, and academic effort). Second, the study assesses whether family cohesion buffers the relationship between socializing with these peers and academic engagement. The findings from hierarchical linear regression indicate that socializing with peers who engage in risky behaviors has a significant, negative impac...Continue Reading

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Oct 2, 2013·American Journal of Community Psychology·Elise CappellaDaisy R Jackson
Jan 4, 2019·The Journal of School Health·Brittany A BugbeeAmelia M Arria
Dec 1, 2010·Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health·Calvin Gwandure, Thokozile Mayekiso

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