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ERIC Number: EJ1404376
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1740-5629
EISSN: EISSN-1740-5610
Cascades Linking School Achievement and Engagement to the Acculturation of Immigrant-Origin Youth
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Jens Asendorpf
European Journal of Developmental Psychology, v20 n6 p1021-1041 2023
Low academic achievement has been shown to lead to higher disengagement from school, the main acculturative arena for immigrant-origin youth. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that their disengagement from school will lead over time to lower involvement with the national culture and higher involvement with the ethnic culture. To test this hypothesis, we examined developmental cascades linking academic achievement to school engagement and spreading to national and ethnic acculturation, in a three-wave longitudinal study of immigrant adolescents in Greece. Cross-lagged analyses revealed that lower academic achievement cascaded over time to decreases in school engagement, which in turn cascaded to decreases in national, and increases in ethnic, involvement. School engagement fully longitudinally mediated the effects of academic achievement on both national and ethnic involvement. All cross-lagged effects in the reverse direction were non-significant. The results highlight the importance of schools in immigrant-origin youth's involvement with the national culture.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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