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Keys, Tran D.; Conley, AnneMarie M.; Duncan, Greg J.; Domina, Thurston – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2012
This study examines the association between personal goal orientations and mathematics achievement within the trichotomous goal framework. Participants comprised approximately 2000 seventh and eighth grade White, Hispanic, and Vietnamese students in a low-income urban school district in California. Regression analysis with classroom fixed effects…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Vietnamese People, Mathematics Achievement, Goal Orientation
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Lam, Brian Trung – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2005
This prospective study examined whether interdependent self-construal (collectivism), independent self-construal (individualism), family cohesion, and social support would predict levels of self-esteem among Vietnamese American adolescents. Standardized self-report measures of family cohesion, social support, and self-esteem, as well as a measure…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Vietnamese People, Asian Americans, Social Support Groups