A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvement
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A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvement.
We developed a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youth's abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. We describe and evaluate this programme comparing three cohorts of urban African American middle school students (n=62 experimental, n=146 control), controlling for sex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Adolescence
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0140-1971
DOI: 10.1006/jado.2002.0474