The Dynamic of Achievement Attitudes in the South: An Application of the Heise Path Panel Method.

Autor/inn/en	Cosby, Arthur G.; und weitere
Institution	Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Titel	The Dynamic of Achievement Attitudes in the South: An Application of the Heise Path Panel Method.
Quelle	(1974), (38 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Aspiration; Correlation; Expectation; High School Students; Models; Occupational Aspiration; Path Analysis; Research Methodology; Rural Youth; Statistical Analysis; Tables (Data) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Expectancy; Erwartung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Analogiemodell; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Pfadanalyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Rural area; Rural areas; Youth; Ländlicher Raum; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Statistische Analyse; Tabelle
Abstract	Recent studies have applied causal models to the formation of educational and occupational attitudes. Although some were conceived and conducted for purposes other than the analysis of status attainment processes, a powerful synthesizing perspective would be to treat them as studies of components of incomplete general attainment models. This study focused on the stability of and the mutual dependency between occupational and educational achievement attitudes. Path analytic techniques for two-variable panel analyses developed by Heise (1970) were combined with data collected in a three-wave panel of nonmetropolitan Southern youth over a 6-year period (1966-72). This modeling technique was applied alternately to occupational aspirations and expectations, educational aspirations and expectations, occupational aspiration level, and educational aspiration level. The same variable observed at each wave was treated as hypothetically different variables. Some findings were: (1) mean aspirations measures at each wave were consistently larger than the corresponding expectational measures; (2) from the statistical perspective of simple prediction, prior levels of achievement attitudes yielded a moderate prediction level of subsequent measures; and (3) post-high school projections were considerably more stable than projections observed during high school. (NQ)
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