This study longitudinally investigates the relationship between adolescent/mother religious disco... more This study longitudinally investigates the relationship between adolescent/mother religious discordance and emerging adult sexual risk-taking 6-7 years later. We used Social Control Theory to examine the level and direction of concordance using data from Wave I and Wave III of the Add Health Study, focusing on constructs of religious importance, frequency of prayer, and attendance at religious services. We found that higher levels of adolescent/mother discordance in religious importance were related to increased emerging adult sexual risk-taking compared to those with similar levels adolescent/mother religiosity, but this occurred only when mothers reported higher levels of religious importance than their children. In contrast, adolescents reporting higher frequency of prayer than their mothers reported lower levels of sexual risk-taking than those with similar frequency of adolescent/mother prayer. These findings suggest that the protective effects of family religious socialization can be interrupted. However, this influence of religious difference on sexual risk-behavior operates differently depending on the direction and level of religious difference. Even in emerging adulthood, a period marked by distance from childhood values and institutions, religious difference with a parent remains a meaningful influence.
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2016
Although 15% of engineering and technology positions are filled by foreign workers on temporary v... more Although 15% of engineering and technology positions are filled by foreign workers on temporary visas, little attention is given to first generation immigrant students in the U.S. who are poised to fill this gap in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline. This mixed-method study of 1073 high school freshmen and sophomores in an urban district investigated the association between immigrant status and predictors of persistence in STEM. Immigrant students reported higher science and math self-concept, and higher engagement and grades in STEM subjects. Immigrant status was associated with increased odds of aspirations for college study in STEM as mediated by math self-concept. Interviews revealed family patterns of instrumental and emotional support for academic skills and interests in STEM.
Numerous studies in the educational literature indicate that pedagogical methods featuring studen... more Numerous studies in the educational literature indicate that pedagogical methods featuring student interaction are more effective than strict lecture-style teaching [1]. Clearly, students more actively engaged in the learning process through group work, problem solving, and open-ended questions, are better prepared for how they will be expected to perform in their professional engineering careers. Prince and Felder [2] noted in 2006 that most traditional engineering education is deductive, where students are taught fundamentals and theories associated with a specific topic, and then progress to applying those learned skills to problem solving. An alternative to this traditional approach is inductive instruction, a term that encompasses a wide variety of possibilities, including inquiry learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, and just-in-time-teaching. Northeastern University is combining both deductive and inductive educatio...
This research note describes the use of latent class analysis to examine how three dimensions of ... more This research note describes the use of latent class analysis to examine how three dimensions of religiosity-the importance of religion (religious salience), attendance at religious services, and frequency of prayer-cluster together to form unique profiles. Building upon recent research identifying different profiles of religiosity at the level of the individual, we used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to identify dyadic profiles of religious concordance or discordance between 14,202 adolescents and their mothers. We identified five profiles: one concordant (27% of sample), two discordant (25% of sample), and two of mixed concordance/discordance (49%). The profiles distinguish between various levels of adolescent/mother relations, suggesting that they may represent distinct family dynamics. They also distinguish between several variables (race, adolescent age, geographical region) in predictable ways, providing additional demonstration of the categories' meaningfulness.
This study longitudinally investigates the relationship between adolescent/mother religious disco... more This study longitudinally investigates the relationship between adolescent/mother religious discordance and emerging adult sexual risk-taking 6-7 years later. We used Social Control Theory to examine the level and direction of concordance using data from Wave I and Wave III of the Add Health Study, focusing on constructs of religious importance, frequency of prayer, and attendance at religious services. We found that higher levels of adolescent/mother discordance in religious importance were related to increased emerging adult sexual risk-taking compared to those with similar levels adolescent/mother religiosity, but this occurred only when mothers reported higher levels of religious importance than their children. In contrast, adolescents reporting higher frequency of prayer than their mothers reported lower levels of sexual risk-taking than those with similar frequency of adolescent/mother prayer. These findings suggest that the protective effects of family religious socialization can be interrupted. However, this influence of religious difference on sexual risk-behavior operates differently depending on the direction and level of religious difference. Even in emerging adulthood, a period marked by distance from childhood values and institutions, religious difference with a parent remains a meaningful influence.
Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 2016
Although 15% of engineering and technology positions are filled by foreign workers on temporary v... more Although 15% of engineering and technology positions are filled by foreign workers on temporary visas, little attention is given to first generation immigrant students in the U.S. who are poised to fill this gap in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline. This mixed-method study of 1073 high school freshmen and sophomores in an urban district investigated the association between immigrant status and predictors of persistence in STEM. Immigrant students reported higher science and math self-concept, and higher engagement and grades in STEM subjects. Immigrant status was associated with increased odds of aspirations for college study in STEM as mediated by math self-concept. Interviews revealed family patterns of instrumental and emotional support for academic skills and interests in STEM.
Numerous studies in the educational literature indicate that pedagogical methods featuring studen... more Numerous studies in the educational literature indicate that pedagogical methods featuring student interaction are more effective than strict lecture-style teaching [1]. Clearly, students more actively engaged in the learning process through group work, problem solving, and open-ended questions, are better prepared for how they will be expected to perform in their professional engineering careers. Prince and Felder [2] noted in 2006 that most traditional engineering education is deductive, where students are taught fundamentals and theories associated with a specific topic, and then progress to applying those learned skills to problem solving. An alternative to this traditional approach is inductive instruction, a term that encompasses a wide variety of possibilities, including inquiry learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, and just-in-time-teaching. Northeastern University is combining both deductive and inductive educatio...
This research note describes the use of latent class analysis to examine how three dimensions of ... more This research note describes the use of latent class analysis to examine how three dimensions of religiosity-the importance of religion (religious salience), attendance at religious services, and frequency of prayer-cluster together to form unique profiles. Building upon recent research identifying different profiles of religiosity at the level of the individual, we used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to identify dyadic profiles of religious concordance or discordance between 14,202 adolescents and their mothers. We identified five profiles: one concordant (27% of sample), two discordant (25% of sample), and two of mixed concordance/discordance (49%). The profiles distinguish between various levels of adolescent/mother relations, suggesting that they may represent distinct family dynamics. They also distinguish between several variables (race, adolescent age, geographical region) in predictable ways, providing additional demonstration of the categories' meaningfulness.
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