Cognitive and Affective Factor Dimensions in Each of Four High School Samples of Different Ethnicity

Abstract

For each of four different ethnic samples of eleventh grade high school students—292 Anglos, 28 Asians, 38 blacks, and 190 Latinos, a factor analysis of the intereorrelations of scores on a standardized reading test, grades earned in History, English, and a Science/ Mathematics course, and scores received on six measures intended to reflect different dimensions of academic self-concept revealed three factors described as Academic Achievement, Positive Academic Affect , and Anxiety. In addition to displaying essential factorial in variance across the four samples, the results showed that the factor structure of each of the four rotated solutions served to explain the criterion-related validity coefficients obtained by Lehn, Vladovic, and Michael (1980) in a companion study.

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