Future time perspective and academic achievement level among Puerto Rican children.
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Title
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Future time perspective and academic achievement level among Puerto Rican children.
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Identifier
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AAI9720135
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identifier
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9720135
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Creator
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Rodriguez, Maria de Lourdes.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Anderson J. Franklin
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Education, Educational Psychology | Psychology, Industrial | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between future time perspective and the academic achievement level of Puerto Rican elementary school children. It explored three dimensions of future time perspective: future time extension, future time density, and future time outlook. The sample consisted of seventy fourth and fifth grade students attending a public school in a low socioeconomic community in the South Bronx, New York City. All subjects completed a questionnaire, instruments measuring future time extension, density and outlook and a measure of reading and arithmetic.;The results offered no support to a relationship between reading achievement and future time perspective. The results offered some support to a relationship between arithmetic achievement and future time perspective but not in the direction hypothesized. The results supported the finding of no gender differences.;Secondary findings found demographic and background variables related to academic achievement.;This study offered little support to research literature associating future time perspective and academic achievement. Further research in this area is suggested.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
