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Research Articles

Cascades linking school achievement and engagement to the acculturation of immigrant-origin youth

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Pages 1021-1041 | Received 22 Feb 2022, Accepted 17 Feb 2023, Published online: 02 Mar 2023
 

ABSTRACT

Low academic achievement has been shown to lead to higher disengagement from school, the main acculturative arena for immigrant-origin youth. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that their disengagement from school will lead over time to lower involvement with the national culture and higher involvement with the ethnic culture. To test this hypothesis, we examined developmental cascades linking academic achievement to school engagement and spreading to national and ethnic acculturation, in a three-wave longitudinal study of immigrant adolescents in Greece. Cross-lagged analyses revealed that lower academic achievement cascaded over time to decreases in school engagement, which in turn cascaded to decreases in national, and increases in ethnic, involvement. School engagement fully longitudinally mediated the effects of academic achievement on both national and ethnic involvement. All cross-lagged effects in the reverse direction were non-significant. The results highlight the importance of schools in immigrant-origin youth’s involvement with the national culture.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

Data and materials that support the results and/or analyses presented in this paper will be made freely available upon request.

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Funding

Work on the present paper was supported by a research grant to the first author funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI_FM17_TDE_1188). The grant supports research projects of Faculty members and Researchers working in Greek Universities and Research Centers

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