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Schofield, Thomas J.; Toro, Rosa I.; Parke, Ross D.; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Fabricius, William V.; Coltrane, Scott – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The primary goal of the current study was to test whether parent and adolescent preference for a common language moderates the association between parenting and rank-order change over time in offspring substance use. A sample of Mexican-origin 7th-grade adolescents (M[subscript age] = 12.5 years, N = 194, 52% female) was measured longitudinally on…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Grade 7, Longitudinal Studies, Smoking
Macmillan, Robert W. – 1968
The following socioeconomic variables were investigated as significant predictors of school achievement for Spanish-speaking children: (1) occupation of mother or father (the major wage earner), (2) family size, (3) family organization, (4) sex of child, (5) preschool experience, and (6) attendance record. School achievement was determined with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Family Income, Family Structure
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Bean, Frank; And Others – International Migration Review, 1984
Uses 1980 Public Use Microfiles to delineate four Mexican-origin immigrant status groups--post-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, pre-1975 Mexican-born noncitizens, self-reported naturalized citizens, and native-born Mexican Americans. Argues that the pattern of sociodemographic differences reveals that the first two categories contain a substantial…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Data Analysis, Demography, Educational Background