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Cosby, Arthur G.; Picou, J. Steven – 1979
Career and career related preference expressed by a number of rural Southern high school youth were found to moderately predict their early adult behaviors. Preferences for post high school education were the dominant influence and single best predictor of subsequent educational attainment. Moderate linkages were also found to exist between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Aspiration, Blacks