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Author Schneider, Barbara L.

Title The ambitious generation : America's teenagers, motivated but directionless / Barbara Schneider and David Stevenson.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]
©1999
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index.
Contents Ambitious Adolescents -- Voices from the 1950s and the 1990s -- Imagining the Future -- Trying to Make It with a High School Diploma -- Importance of Aligned Ambitions -- Formation of Aligned Ambitions -- Channeling Ambitions in High School -- Families and the Shaping of Aligned Ambitions -- Teenage Work and Internships -- Being Alone and Being with Friends -- Defining a Pathway -- Ambition Paradox -- Supporting the Development of Aligned Ambitions -- Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development -- Logistic Regression Models.
Summary Annotation "A fascinating account of how the lives and dreams of American teenagers have changed in the past 50 years" (Mihaly Csikszentmihali), this landmark study offers practical, specific advice about how parents and teachers can better direct and support adolescents.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Teenagers -- United States -- Social conditions -- Longitudinal studies.
Teenagers.
United States.
Social conditions.
Adolescent psychology -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.
Adolescent psychology.
Motivation (Psychology) in adolescence -- United States -- Longitudinal studies.
Motivation (Psychology) in adolescence.
Genre/Form Longitudinal studies.
Electronic books.
Added Author Stevenson, David, 1951-
Other Form: Print version: Schneider, Barbara L. Ambitious generation. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1999 0300079826 (DLC) 98052033 (OCoLC)40444051
ISBN 0585358524 (electronic book)
9780585358529 (electronic book)
9780300082753
0300082754
0300079826 (alkaline paper)
0300082754 (paperback)

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