‘Friends and grades’: Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth
The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6–11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0143034312446888 2024-10-06T13:48:44+00:00 ‘Friends and grades’: Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth Burack, Jacob A. D’Arrisso, Alexandra Ponizovsky, Vladimir Troop-Gordon, Wendy Mandour, Tarek Tootoosis, Curtis Robinson, Sandy Iarocci, Grace Fryberg, Stephanie 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143034312446888 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143034312446888 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0143034312446888 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license School Psychology International volume 34, issue 4, page 371-386 ISSN 0143-0343 1461-7374 journal-article 2013 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0143034312446888 2024-09-10T04:28:53Z The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6–11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analyses to handle missing data, only the measures of peer preference and self-report attachment to peers were found to predict school grades. These findings are inconsistent with the oppositional hypothesis that has been forwarded with other minority youths from historically oppressed communities, but rather are evidence for the beneficial effects of ‘peer power’ in this community. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations naskapi SAGE Publications School Psychology International 34 4 371 386 |
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The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6–11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analyses to handle missing data, only the measures of peer preference and self-report attachment to peers were found to predict school grades. These findings are inconsistent with the oppositional hypothesis that has been forwarded with other minority youths from historically oppressed communities, but rather are evidence for the beneficial effects of ‘peer power’ in this community. |
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Burack, Jacob A. D’Arrisso, Alexandra Ponizovsky, Vladimir Troop-Gordon, Wendy Mandour, Tarek Tootoosis, Curtis Robinson, Sandy Iarocci, Grace Fryberg, Stephanie ‘Friends and grades’: Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth |
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‘Friends and grades’: Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth |
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‘friends and grades’: peer preference and attachment predict academic success among naskapi youth |
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