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Direct linkKapil, Meg E.; Shepard, Blythe C. – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2011
A cross-sectional survey explored 96 rural adolescents' perceptions of their rural context and how their self-concept is related to perceptions of capability regarding hopes and fears for the future. The youth surveyed, from the Kootenay Boundary region of British Columbia, indicated ambivalence about staying in their communities after leaving…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHendry, Leo B.; Reid, Marylou – Journal of Adolescence, 2000
Discusses social belonging as both a health-related goal and an antidote for emotional crises. Examines how social connectedess represents both a content and process variable in Northern Scottish young people's discussion of their health concerns. Analyses reveal both the potency of all these concerns and participants' belief that skills acquired…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Health, Health Behavior
Tal, Amos – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
A study examines environmental and personality factors as predictors of academic achievement among kibbutz and urban high school students. Results of a comparison of personality factors indicate that kibbutz students are more restrained, reserved, adaptable, and conforming. The higher scores of city students on intelligence tests may stem from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Collective Settlements, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Jones, Gill; Jamieson, Lynn – 1997
A study of youth out-migration from the Scottish Borders region was based on the 1989 Scottish Young People's Survey--a survey of students during their final compulsory school year (age 16-17)--plus followup interviews in 1995 with 23-year-olds from the rural Borders region. Among those in school in the Borders at age 16, only around one-third…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Hemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell; Hill, Doug – 1997
A two-phase study assessed the extent to which a set of variables predicted rural secondary students' likelihood of continuing to college and sought to determine predictors of rural students' academic success at the completion of first-year university study. Participants were drawn from seven state coeducational secondary schools in the Riverina…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students
Kilpatrick, Sue; Bell, Rowena; Kilpatrick, Peter – 2000
A study examined the impact of high school vocational education and training (VET) courses on small, rural communities in Tasmania (Australia). Data were gathered from site visits and interviews with school principals, VET coordinators, and VET students from three rural Tasmanian high schools. Findings show that the programs met the immediate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries
