Factors associated with educational aspirations among adolescents: cues to counteract socioeconomic differences?
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Factors associated with educational aspirations among adolescents: cues to counteract socioeconomic differences?
BACKGROUND Our study aims to follow this effort and to explore the association between health, socioeconomic background, school-related factors, social support and adolescents' sense of coherence and educational aspirations among adolescents from different educational tracks and to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on the role of educational aspirations in the social reproduction of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-154