Family relationships and school achievement among boys of lower-income urban Black families.
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 53 (1) , 127-143
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1983.tb03357.x
Abstract
This study of poor, black, urban families relates mothers' views of the ideal relationship between their sons and the world to the sons' academic achievement. In open-ended interviews, mothers of high achievers express ideals for their sons that emphasize self-motivated, active, learning engagement with the world; mothers of low achievers express ideals that emphasize constraint, isolation, and adult control. The effects of a hostile environment on this family interaction among low achievers are considered.Keywords
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