School Foci and Their Potential Ramifications in Urban High Schools
Abstract
The study examined the relationship among students’ focus in urban schools and three educationally relevant psychological factors: school engagement, achievement goals, and possible future self. A 1-year study at two urban high schools with a total of 212 participants suggested that academically focused students are more highly engaged with mastery-approach goals, whereas students with a social focus had less optimal engagement and more performance goal orientations. Both academic and social focus indicated strongest relationships with academic future self and social future self, respectively.
Publication Title
Youth and Society
Recommended Citation
Jones, M., Mueller, C., & McCutchen, K. (2019). School Foci and Their Potential Ramifications in Urban High Schools. Youth and Society, 51 (4), 484-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X16685656
