Personality and Environmental Correlates of Academic Achievement in Ojibwa Indian Youth
Title:
Personality and Environmental Correlates of Academic Achievement in Ojibwa Indian Youth
Author:
Latus, Gerald Bauman, Edward
Appeared in:
International journal of psychology
Paging:
Volume 15 (1980) nr. 1-4 pages 71-82
Year:
1980
Contents:
High School Personality Questionnaire profiles, grades, and boarding home information were obtained for almost the entire Grade 9 and 10 native Indian student population in the districts of Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay (Ontario, Canada) in order to discover the factors that relate to the high incidence of academic failure among native students. Native Indian youth as a group differed from white population in personality traits, but the lack of a strong correlation between these personality traits and school grades suggests that the personality traits characteristic of an Indian population are not the primary cause of school failure. Students who came from remote reserves were better adjusted than those who lived within driving distance of white settlements and had greater opportunities for acculturation. There was no correlation between school grades and boarding home conditions. Female students showed less variability in personality structure than males, and seemed less affected by changes in culture and boarding home conditions. A comparison of native students in academic and occupational programs revealed some personality differences among males but none among females. Afin de decouvrir ies facteurs responsables du taux eleve ďechec scolaire chez les etudiants autochtones, ľon a obtenu pour pratiquement ľensemble des etudiants des degres 9 et 10 (secondaire) de la population indienne indigoene des districts de Kenora, Rainy River, et Thunder Bay (Ontario, Canada), les profils de personnalite au niveau du secondaire, les resul-tats (scolaires) obtenus et les informations concernant le logement (pensionnat). La jeunesse indienne autochtone en tant que groupe differait de la population blanche quant aux traits de personnalite, mais le manque de rapport evident entre ces traits de personnalite et les resultats scolaires suggere que les traits de personnalite ďune population indienne ne sont pas la cause premiere de ľechec scolaire. Des etudiants issus de reserves geographiquement eloignees s'adap-taient mieux que ceux qui vivaient a une distance proche (franchissable en voiture) ďagglomerations blanches et qui avaient done plus de possibilityes ďacculturation. II n'y avait aucun lien entre les resultats scolaires et les conditions de logement ('pension'). Les etudiantes montraient moins de variations dans la structure de personnalite que les etudiants et semblaient moins influenceees par les changements de culture et les conditions de logement. Une comparaison entre etudiants autochtones quant a leurs programmes academiques et leurs occupations a montre quelques differences de personnalite aupres des etudiants mais aucune aupres des etudiantes.
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