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events and perceived competence on school grades and internalized symptoms were also found
by the authors.
In another study, Plunkett and Baimaca-G6mez (2003) discovered that in terms of
relationships between gender, acculturation, parenting, and adolescent students' academic
achievement in Mexican-origin immigrant families, girls compared with boys showed greater
academic motivation, as well as higher educational aspiration. A positive relationship was
discovered by Plunkett and Baimaca-G6mez between mothers' and fathers' education-supportive
behaviors (e.g., ability and willingness to help with school work; monitoring of progress;
emotional support) and adolescents' of both genders sustained academic motivation. Also,
mothers' and fathers' educational levels, the language(s) spoken at home (e.g., Spanish and or
English), and educational aspirations of parents were related to levels of educational aspiration
reported by their children. The authors found, further, that generation status (e.g., first or second-
generation American) did not relate to such academic outcomes. Implications of these findings,
for researchers, practitioners, school personnel, policy makers, and community members, in
terms of importance of parental involvement and encouragement of student progress and
academic aspirations, were discussed in terms of best practices for the future. Self-report survey
data were collected from adolescents attending three high schools in Los Angeles. Correlation
and multiple regression analyses were conducted on the 273 adolescents (M = 15.5) whose
parents were both born in Mexico.
In "Self-Esteem in the Adaptation of Spanish-Speaking Adolescents: The Role of
Immigration, Family Conflict, and Depression," (Portes & Zady, 2002) a cultural context model
was used to study group differences in self-esteem levels among members of a Spanish-speaking
sample of adolescents. Results of the study were that acculturation patterns among the Spanish-12
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Abel, Karen. Factors Affecting Academic Interest and Self Perception of Adolescent Hispanic Females, dissertation, August 2007; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4011/m1/19/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .