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Sanchez, Bernadette; Esparza, Patricia; Colon, Yari – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
The current study examined the role of natural mentoring relationships in the academic performance of urban, diverse, Latino high school students. Participants reported up to three mentors in their lives, and they were asked about their mentors' demographic characteristics and the characteristics of their mentoring relationships. The presence of a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Hispanic Americans
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Sanchez, Bernadette; Colon, Yari; Esparza, Patricia – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005
The aim of this study was to examine the roles of sense of belonging and gender in the academic outcomes of urban, Latino adolescents. It was expected that sense of belonging would play a different role in males' and females' academic adjustment. Participants (N = 143) included mostly Mexican and Puerto Rican seniors from a large, urban high…
Descriptors: Role, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Urban Schools