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Marjoribanks, Kevin; Mboya, Mzobanzi – Educational Studies, 1997
Examines relationships between environmental contexts, sibling structure, immediate family settings, and students' affective characteristics. Finds that immediate family settings have a stronger effect on student affect than family environmental contexts and that there are gender-related differences in the nature of the relationships between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Children, Emotional Development
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Marjoribanks, Kevin; Mboya, Mzobanzi M. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1998
Examines the relationships among social status, proximate family settings, student responsibility for school outcomes, and self-concepts of 460 South African high school students. Reports that social status, family settings, and student responsibility had modest to strong associations with self-concept development including gender-related…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
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Marjoribanks, Kevin – Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Reports on a study of the relationships between social categories, defined by ethnicity, gender, and social status, and school-related outcomes among 470 16-year-old Australian adolescents and their parents. Finds that differences in students' learning environments and school outcomes were related strongly to ethnicity. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Ethnic Groups