Natural Mentors, Social Class, and College Success.
Abstract: Natural mentors provide advice, moral support, and assistance to adolescents who aspire to obtain a postsecondary degree, but past studies of the benefits of having an informal adult mentor have yet to resolve several issues. Our analyses of a national sample of high school graduates test...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 61; no. 1/2; pp. 179 - 191 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2018
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