TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Friends and grades'
T2 - Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth
AU - Burack, Jacob A.
AU - D'Arrisso, Alexandra
AU - Ponizovsky, Vladimir
AU - Troop-Gordon, Wendy
AU - Mandour, Tarek
AU - Tootoosis, Curtis
AU - Robinson, Sandy
AU - Iarocci, Grace
AU - Fryberg, Stephanie
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6-11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analyses to handle missing data, only the measures of peer preference and self-report attachment to peers were found to predict school grades. These findings are inconsistent with the oppositional hypothesis that has been forwarded with other minority youths from historically oppressed communities, but rather are evidence for the beneficial effects of 'peer power' in this community.
AB - The primary findings of this study are preliminary support for the promotive effects of positive peer relations in an educational context with a specific group of First Nations adolescents. Eighty-one students from grades 6-11 who attended the sole school in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in northern Québec, representing virtually all of the youths in the community, completed questionnaires regarding peer preferences, self-report peer and parental attachment, and affiliation with mainstream White and Native culture. Based on a regression analysis with full information maximum likelihood (FIML) analyses to handle missing data, only the measures of peer preference and self-report attachment to peers were found to predict school grades. These findings are inconsistent with the oppositional hypothesis that has been forwarded with other minority youths from historically oppressed communities, but rather are evidence for the beneficial effects of 'peer power' in this community.
KW - Aboriginal peoples
KW - First Nations
KW - Native American
KW - Québec
KW - education
KW - indigenous populations
KW - peer relations
KW - school performance
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U2 - 10.1177/0143034312446888
DO - 10.1177/0143034312446888
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878040803
SN - 0143-0343
VL - 34
SP - 371
EP - 386
JO - School Psychology International
JF - School Psychology International
IS - 4
ER -
