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Sibling and environmental correlates of adolescents' aspirations: family group differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Kevin Marjoribanks
Kevin Marjoribanks
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide, Australia
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Summary

Relationships were examined between sibling variables, perceptions of learning environments and aspirations for Australian adolescents from family contexts defined conjointly by human and social capital. Generally, the findings using a regression approach indicated that sibling variables continued to have significant and often complex associations with adolescents' aspirations after taking into account relationships between perceptions of learning environments and aspirations. Also, relationships between sibling variables, perceptions of learning environments and aspirations, varied for adolescents from the different family contexts.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 301 - 309
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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