TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational aspiration-expectation discrepancies
T2 - Relation to socioeconomic and academic risk-related factors
AU - Boxer, Paul
AU - Goldstein, Sara E.
AU - DeLorenzo, Tahlia
AU - Savoy, Sarah
AU - Mercado, Ignacio
PY - 2011/8/1
Y1 - 2011/8/1
N2 - This study examines whether disconnection between educational aspirations and expectations is associated with socioeconomic status, academic performance, academic risk-related behaviors and related psychosocial factors in an ethnically and economically diverse sample of early adolescents from a public middle school (N = 761). Results suggest that students who aspire to achieve more than they expect to achieve also are likely to have more economically disadvantaged backgrounds and poorer academic performance. These students also show a variety of academic and social risks. Specifically, students whose aspirations exceeded their expectations reported lower levels of school bonding, higher levels of test/performance anxiety, and elevated behavioral/emotional difficulties. Results are discussed in terms of social-cognitive theory as well as applications for promoting student social and academic success.
AB - This study examines whether disconnection between educational aspirations and expectations is associated with socioeconomic status, academic performance, academic risk-related behaviors and related psychosocial factors in an ethnically and economically diverse sample of early adolescents from a public middle school (N = 761). Results suggest that students who aspire to achieve more than they expect to achieve also are likely to have more economically disadvantaged backgrounds and poorer academic performance. These students also show a variety of academic and social risks. Specifically, students whose aspirations exceeded their expectations reported lower levels of school bonding, higher levels of test/performance anxiety, and elevated behavioral/emotional difficulties. Results are discussed in terms of social-cognitive theory as well as applications for promoting student social and academic success.
KW - Academic aspirations
KW - Academic expectations
KW - Academic/social risk
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959828756&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.10.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 21036390
AN - SCOPUS:79959828756
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 34
SP - 609
EP - 617
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
IS - 4
ER -