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Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; McGuire, Luke; Mathews, Channing; Hoffman, Adam J.; Law, Fidelia; Joy, Angelina; Hartstone-Rose, Adam; Winterbottom, Mark; Balkwill, Frances; Fields, Grace; Butler, Laurence; Burns, Karen; Drews, Marc; Rutland, Adam – Youth & Society, 2023
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers need both motivation and interpersonal skills in STEM disciplines. The aims of the study were to identify clusters of adolescents who vary in math and science motivation and interpersonal skills and to explore what factors are related to membership in a high math and science motivation and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Adolescents, Student Motivation, Interpersonal Competence
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Smith, Naila A.; Thelamour, Barbara; Booth, Margaret X. – Youth & Society, 2022
Ethnic identity (EI) can facilitate racially and ethnically marginalized youths' academic achievement but the mediating process by which it exerts its influence is unclear. This study examines how EI is associated with academic achievement through academic beliefs in a sample of Caribbean first and second generation immigrant adolescents whose…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Adolescents
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Tan, Tony Xing; Yi, Zhiyao – Youth & Society, 2021
To test whether adoption differentially benefited adopted youth's behavioral health, 243 female American youth who were adopted from China were compared with 234 non-adopted American peers, and 955 non-adopted Chinese peers living in China on four composite scales: School Problems, Internalizing Problems, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder…
Descriptors: Adoption, Children, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns