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Harris, Michelle A.; Wetzel, Eunike; Robins, Richard W.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Trzesniewski, Kali H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
The current study investigated the development of global and domain (academic, physical, same-sex peer relationship, opposite-sex peer relationship) self-esteem from age 10 to 16 in a sample of Mexican-origin adolescents. Participants' (N = 674) responses on the Self-Description Questionnaire (SDQ; Marsh, 2005) II-S showed moderate rank-order…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Mexican Americans, Peer Relationship, Questionnaires
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Ishizawa, Hiromi – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2014
This study investigates patterns of volunteerism within a rapidly growing segment of the population, Mexican immigrant and Mexican origin youth, using data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. These data show that volunteerism varies by immigrant generational status. Contradicting classical assimilation theory, first-generation Mexican…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Family Income
Berry-Caban, Cristobal S. – 1982
Data pertaining to Puerto Rican and Mexican American prospective engineering students, obtained from a 1978 survey conducted by the Minority Engineering Education Effort, are analyzed. Of the total population of 2,423 respondents, 426 were Mexican American and 122 were Puerto Rican. The study population was identified as interested in attending a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, Career Choice