Adolescent Alienation and Attitudes toward School in Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo High School Students.

Autor/inn/en	Loughrey, Michael E.; Harris, Mary B.
Titel	Adolescent Alienation and Attitudes toward School in Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo High School Students.
Quelle	(1992), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	American Indians; Anglo Americans; Correlation; High School Students; High Schools; Hispanic Americans; Institutional Characteristics; Rating Scales; Social Status; Student Alienation; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? American Indian; Indianer; Korrelation; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Rating-Skala; Sozialer Status; Schülerverhalten; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	This paper reports on a correlational study of the relationship between adolescent alienation, demographic variables, and school variables. Participants were 466 students including Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites from 4 public high schools in a Southwestern state. Students completed Mackey's Adolescent Alienation Scale and Ahlgren's Minnesota School Attitude Survey, which measured three dimensions of alienation: (1) personal incapacity, which reflects an inability to make decisions or cope with problems of daily living; (2) guidelessness, a sense that norms or accepted rules to guide behavior are not available; and (3) cultural estrangement, a voluntary rejection of the middle class value system. Also measured were student attitudes toward support at school, pressure at school, and personal development at school. In addition students were asked to respond to 22 demographic questions. Results of the study indicate that Hispanics and Native Americans scored higher on the involuntary dimensions of alienation (personal incapacity and guidelessness), whereas Anglos scored higher on voluntary alienation (cultural estrangement). There were also significant effects found for sex, grade point average, support at school, pressure at school, and interactions between sex and support at school and between ethnicity and pressure at school. This study offers suggestions for schools to help alleviate the alienated feelings of students. Recommendations for future research also are included. (LP)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC