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Academic and Career Expectations of Ethnic Minority Youth in Hong Kong
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Cheung, Francis; Lai, Beatrice P. Y.; Wu, Anise M. S.; Ku, Lisbeth – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
Based on social-cognitive career theory (SCCT), we explore how ethnic identity, parental occupation, efficacy in learning Chinese, and learning experience relate to ethnic minority adolescents' academic and career expectations. The participants are 632 Southeast Asian adolescents in Hong Kong. In accordance with SCCT, structural equation modeling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
Relations among Maternal Parenting Style, Academic Competence, and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Early Adolescents
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Leung, Candice Y.-W.; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Lai, Beatrice P.-Y. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2004
The relations among maternal concern and restrictiveness, self-evaluated academic competence, and life satisfaction were explored in a short-term longitudinal study of 346 7th-grade students (126 males and 220 females) in Hong Kong. The authors found that perceived maternal concern, academic competence, and life satisfaction significantly declined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Structural Equation Models, Parenting Styles