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Contextual Factors Associated With The Achievement Of African American And European American Adolescents: A Diversimilarity Approach, Joseph Ofori-Dankwa, Robin Mckinney
Contextual Factors Associated With The Achievement Of African American And European American Adolescents: A Diversimilarity Approach, Joseph Ofori-Dankwa, Robin Mckinney
Ethnic Studies Review
The current study is an extension of Luster & McAdoo's 1994 study of African American children and ecological factors impacting academic performance of these children. Luster and McAdoo found that maternal educational level, income, number of children and living conditions were related to how well children performed in school. Those children from impoverished backgrounds with uneducated mothers had lower quality academic performance. Using the Nation Longitudinal Survey of Youth data (1992), the current study investigated similarities and differences in the impact of ecological factors in European American(n = 266) and African American adolescents (n = 400). The results indicated that …