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Smith, Kevin B.; Ohlendorf, George W. – 1975
Changes in marital and procreative projections among rural Louisiana high school youth between 1968 and 1972 were examined. In 1968 a proportionate, stratified, random cluster sampling technique was employed to secure data on seniors from 13 white and 7 black high schools. In 1972 public school integration and the establishment of private schools…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitude Change, Blacks, Children
Clay, Daniel C. – 1976
Examining the normative and regulative effects of parental influence on the educational mobility of high school youth and the changing patterns of educational mobility, rural high school seniors in Ontonagon County, Michigan were surveyed in 1957/58 (N=254), 1968 (N=193), and 1974 (N=201). The key variables examined were: (1) college plans; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Educational Mobility, High School Seniors

Lyson, Thomas A. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Examines background characteristics and personal attributes as decision factors for youth migrating to or from or remaining in rural areas. Explores relationship of migration decisions to early adult social and economic attainment. Shows migration related to both sets of variables. Suggests considering local opportunity structure in labor…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Economic Status, Educational Attainment
Hektner, Joel M. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1995
Questionnaire responses of 918 midwestern 8th, 10th, and 12th graders reveal that rural adolescents, especially males, were more likely to experience conflict between career aspirations and future residential preferences than their urban peers. Additionally, rural 10th graders expressing conflicting aspirations were more likely to have lower…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Conflict, Occupational Aspiration

Lauver, Philip J.; Jones, Randall M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1991
Extended career self-efficacy model using ethnically mixed rural high school population and list of occupations known to students and balanced for prestige level. Examined ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, age (grade), self-esteem, and stressful life events. Gender differences were observed in interest and self-efficacy estimates for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, American Indians, Career Choice, Ethnicity
Petersen, Anne C.; And Others – 1978
Using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ), the study examined the self-image of rural high school youth. The primary subjects were 127 randomly selected students from a rural community high school. The community was predominantly white and middle-class. A second rural sample consisted of 42 students selected from 3 tiny country schools from…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Aspiration, Body Image
Planck, Ulrich – 1981
Trends in employment in West Germany evolved from analysis of a rural youth survey based on interviews from 1955, 1968, and 1980. Persons surveyed were from 17 to 28 years of age and lived in settlements of 5,000 inhabitants or less. During the time period (1955-1980), the youth employment rate decreased from 74% to 67%. Agricultural jobs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Career Choice
Dunnell, P. – 1980
Besides describing actual experiences of rural students who leave school before completing Year 12, a 1978-79 study in Western Australia was also designed to investigate options and employment opportunities available to school leavers. Questionnaires from 1,371 students in Years 9-12 in 14 schools collected data on background, education,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Dropout Attitudes, Dropouts, Education Work Relationship
Cosby, Arthur G., Ed. – 1978
Focusing on a broad population of Black and White rural Deep South youth of both sexes for the period 1966-1972, this monograph investigates the process through which careers and career-related preferences are developed during adolescence, how such preferences influence early adult behaviors, and what consequences these factors have upon the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Career Choice, Career Development
Coleman, A. Lee – 1976
Based upon the unpublished data of a study focusing upon the status projections of low-income youth from seven southern states (rural white Appalachians, rural blacks, inner-city urban blacks, and poor urban whites from one state), this paper synthesizes a longitudinal analysis of status projections. Baseline data (1969) derived from 1,500 fifth…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Blacks, Career Choice
Mookherjee, Harsha N.; Hogan, H. Wayne – 1980
The association between lower-class vs. middle-class values and self-reported delinquency was the focus of this study of 485 Caucasian male and female high school and college students in rural, middle Tennessee. The typical student's family background was lower-middle class, as determined by his/her father's occupation. The values statements used…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Delinquency
Smith, Kevin B.; And Others – 1976
Data gathered via random sampling from white, unmarried high school seniors (143 males and 158 females) in rural Louisiana were utilized to test the following hypotheses: (1) social origin will affect significant other influence; (2) social origin and significant other influence will affect educational plans and will be largely mediated through…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Career Planning, Family Planning, High School Seniors
Phillips, G. Howard; Bartlett, Kaye F. – 1976
A self-reporting questionnaire (57 items) was administered to all high school sophomores (599 completions) in 3 rural Ohio high schools for purposes of identifying correlations between selected social factors and acts of vandalism. The variables examined and the student responses indicated: 52% had committed 1 or more acts of vandalism; 37% were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Drug Abuse, Environmental Influences
Cosby, Arthur G., Ed.; Charner, Ivan, Ed. – 1978
Career and career-related preferences rural youth made and estimation of degree to which choices were translated into adult behavior were investigated by tracing a rural sample of southern 1968 high school graduates through the first four years of post-high school. Focus was on choices expressed and attainments experienced with respect to…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aspiration, Career Choice, Educational Objectives
Venegas, Moises; Kuvlesky, William – 1975
Based on comparative data from two 1973 studies, this study examined whether or not the occupational and educational status projections and language usage patterns of Mexican American teenagers living in a large metropolitan area differed from those of teenagers living in isolated, relatively small nonmetropolitan places. The two separate, but…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Aspiration, Comparative Analysis