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The Influences of Family and Place on Rural Adolescents’ Educational Aspirations and Post-secondary Enrollment

Auteurs: Charlotte Agger, Judith Meece, Soo-yong Byun

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 12/2018

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Despite the large contingent of students living in rural areas, existing research on the processes that precede the college enrollment of rural adolescents is limited. With a particular focus on gender, this study investigated rural adolescents’ perceptions of family and place and how these perceptions related to their educational aspirations and subsequent college enrollment using a nationwide sample of rural adolescents (N = 3456; 52.5% female). Female adolescents reported higher academic achievement, educational aspirations, parental expectations, and family responsibility and enrolled in two-year and four-year institutions at greater rates compared to male adolescents, who reported significantly higher rural identity and perceptions of job opportunities in the rural community. Utilizing a multiple group moderated mediation approach, the results provided evidence that adolescents’ increased perceptions of their parents’ educational expectations were associated with increased educational aspirations and college enrollment and that adolescents’ increased perceptions of job opportunities in their rural community were associated with decreased educational aspirations. In addition, the results showed that gender moderated the relation between perceptions of job opportunities in the rural community and postsecondary enrollment. These findings highlight how the developmental resources of family and place relate to adolescents’ educational aspirations and subsequent postsecondary enrollment.

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It is important to recognize measurement error in the NSC data. That is, the NSC data tend to underestimate the college enrollment rates related to for-profit-colleges and minorities (Dynarski et al. 2015). As a result, we do not know to what extent rural students enroll in for-profit-colleges, and it is likely that in the current study, we underestimate the college enrollment rate for minority students. We acknowledge the limitation of identifying students enrolled in college through NSC data.

Supplementary analyses comparing the NSC matched and unmatched students revealed that the proportion of White and female students and the average level of parental education were higher among identified students compared to the original national sample of high school students that we sent to the NSC. Therefore, we acknowledge that the results of the current study reflect a sample that was gathered through NSC procedures and includes study participants who were enrolled in postsecondary institutions between 2009 and 2013 and who slightly differed in terms of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics compared to those in the unmatched sample.

The NSC provides data on students enrolled in various forms of postsecondary education. While the NSC was able to match 4,702 students with their postsecondary records, these postsecondary records were from various types of postsecondary institutions such as community college, for-profit colleges, and four-year universities.

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Titel: The Influences of Family and Place on Rural Adolescents’ Educational Aspirations and Post-secondary Enrollment
Auteurs: Charlotte Agger
Judith Meece
Soo-yong Byun
Publicatiedatum: 30-07-2018
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 12/2018
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0893-7

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