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Modeling Mexican Americans’ Educational Expectations: Longitudinal Effects of Variables Across Adolescence

Jerry Trusty

Pennsylvania State University

Maximino Plata

Carmen F. Salazar

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Using a national sample of Mexican Americans, the authors developed structural equation models of the effects of four eighth-grade latent variables on educational expectations assessed 6 years later. Models for Mexican American women and men did not differ from one another. The latent variable, parents’ influences, had a strong positive effect on educational expectations at late adolescence. Parents’ influences dominated the effects of the other latent independent variables, socioeconomic status, eighth-grade achievement test scores, and self-perceptions. The four eighth-grade latent variables explained 41% of the variability in educational expectations at late adolescence. The findings reveal consistencies and inconsistencies with previous research findings and models.

Key Words: Mexican Americans • adolescents • educational expectations • parents • postsecondary

Journal of Adolescent Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, 131-153 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0743558402250345
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