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Ang, Rebecca P.; Klassen, Robert M.; Chong, Wan Har; Huan, Vivien S.; Wong, Isabella Y. F.; Yeo, Lay See; Krawchuk, Lindsey L. – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
We provide further evidence for the two-factor structure of the 9-item Academic Expectations Stress Inventory (AESI) using confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 289 Canadian adolescents and 310 Singaporean adolescents. Examination of measurement invariance tests the assumption that the model underlying a set of scores is directly comparable…
Descriptors: Validity, Factor Structure, Adolescents, Factor Analysis
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Kandel, Denise; Lesser, Gerald S. – Sociology of Education, 1970
Study explores how patterns of school friends' and parents' influence converge within the school and the role of the school in shaping adolescents' plans. One conclusion is that school program is more influential in the United States. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Sundberg, Norman D.; Tyler, Leona E. – J Cross Cult Psychol, 1970
Adolescents at the ninth grade level or its equivalent in three small communities answered a questionnaire which asked them to list as many occupations, free-time activities, and acquaintances as they could. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Career Choice, Cross Cultural Studies
Payne, Glen N.; Peck, Robert F. – 1979
The United States portion of a crossnational study of coping styles suggests that children may have coping strategies that support their value systems. Participants were two random samples of equal numbers of ten- and fourteen-year-olds, boys and girls, upper-middle class and upper-lower class in communities near Chicago, Illinois, and Austin,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Careers