Kevin Marjoribanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 111375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Marjoribanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Marjoribanks |
| SIGNATURE | MARJORIBANKS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 95 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Family Background, Academic Achievement, and Educational Aspirations as Predictors of Australian Young Adults' Educational Attainment
Relations were examined between family background, adolescents' academic achievement, aspirations, and young adults' educational attainment. Data were analyzed from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (4,500 men, 4,804 women; M age = 20.1 yr., SD = 0.4). Multistage regression analyses indicated that, while family background and academic achievement measures had medium associations with attainment, adolescents' educational aspirations mad…
Correlations among Family Environment, Academic Achievement, and Academic Attainment in a Large Sample of Young Australian Adults
In a set of interrelated Australian and Spanish investigations in 2001-2004, relationships were examined among intellectual ability, family environment, and academic achievement. This follow-up study used longitudinal data from young Australian adults (4,397 men, 4,703 women; M age = 20.2 yr., SD = 0.4), to investigate relationships among earlier academic achievement, family influences, and academic attainment. From multiple regression and common…
Relations between One- and Two-Parent Families and Young Adults' Happiness Scores
Relations were examined between one- and two-parent families and scores for young adults' happiness. Data were from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) and included 3,580 men and 3,991 women whose average age was 20.2 yr. (SD=0.5) in 2000. Happiness was measured using the 14-item LSAY 2000 Happiness Scale, while family structure was assessed by the young people's responses to questions about who lived in their households. Analysis…
Correlations Among Family Environment, Academic Achievement, and Academic Attainment in a Large Sample of Young Australian Adults
Sibling Effects, Environmental Influences, and University Attendance: A Follow-up Study
In 2002 Marjoribanks examined relations among sibling variables, environmental influences, and school dropout. In this follow-up study, relations were examined between sibling variables (number of children in the family, birth order position) and university attendance. Data were collected from 8,005 (4,116 women, 3,889 men) Australian young adults (M age=20.1 yr., SD=0.5). Logistic regression analyses in the two studies indicated that (a) young a…
Sibling Effects, Environmental Influences, and University Attendance: A Follow-Up Study
Environmental and Individual Predictors of Australian Young Adults' Interest in New Ideas
Relations were examined among family social status, learning environments, individual characteristics, and young adults' interest in new ideas. Data were collected from 19-yr.-old Australians (4,609 females and 4,174 males), as part of a longitudinal investigation. Multiple regression analysis indicated that the predictors combined to have a small association with young adults' interest in new ideas
Learning Environments, Goal Orientations, and Interest in Music
This study is an examination of relationships among family background, family and school learning environments, goal orientations, and students' interest in music. Data were collected from 18-year-old black South African students, 340 women and 285 men, whose main language was Isi Xhosa. Findings indicated that when family background was defined conjointly by family social status and parents' aspirations, (a) family background, gender, family and…
Immigrant Adolescents' Individual and Environmental Influences on Young Adults' Educational Attainment
INTRODUCTIONIn Special Issue of this Journal dedicated to Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Families, Nauck and Settles (2001) examined new challenges confronting family and migration research. They proposed, for example, that future analyses should explore both macro- and micro-level influences when investigating outcomes of children from immigrant families. Similarly, Zhou (1997) suggested that life chances of immigrant children are determined by e…
Family Contexts, Individualism-Collectivism, and Adolescents' Aspirations for Their Futures
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Environments, Individual Characteristics, and Worry of Young Adults
Relations were examined among distal and proximal learning contexts, individual characteristics, and the worry of young adults. Data were collected from 20-yr.-old Australians (3,325 women and 3,070 men). Analysis suggested that learning environment and individual characteristic measures have significant associations with the worry of young adults and that the intensity of worry varies for young adults from different ethnic groups
Family and Ability Correlates of Academic Achievement: Social Status Group Differences
Family and Ability Correlates of Academic Achievement: Social Status Group Differences
In a set of interrelated investigations in 2001-03, García Bacete and Rosel Remirez, Marjoribanks, and García Bacete and Villanueva Badenes examined relationships among intellectual ability, family environment, and academic achievement. Analysis in this follow-up study showed that relationships among ability, environment, and achievement varied for children from different social status groups
Birth Order, Family Environments, Academic and Affective Outcomes
Relations were examined among birth order, family social status, family learning environments, and a set of affective and academic outcomes. Data were collected as part of an Australian longitudinal study (4,171 females and 3,718 males). Analysis suggested that birth order continued to have small but significant associations with adolescents' self-concept and educational aspirations and with young adults' educational attainment, after taking into…
Family Contexts, Individualism-Collectivism, and Adolescents' Aspirations for Their Futures
Relations were examined among family contexts, parents' individualistic-collectivistic value orientations, and adolescents' aspirations. Data were collected from 456 Australian families using two surveys when the subjects were 11 and 16 years old, respectively. Findings indicated that family ethnicity had large associations with parents' individualistic-collectivistic value orientations, but that these orientations were not associated with adoles…
Family Contexts, Individual Characteristics, Proximal Settings, and Adolescents' Aspirations
Family Contexts, Individual Characteristics, Proximal Settings, and Adolescents' Aspirations
This study examined relations among family contexts, individual characteristics, proximal family and school settings, and adolescents' aspirations. As part of a national longitudinal investigation of Australian secondary school students, data were collected from 1,724 boys and 1,788 girls. The results suggest (a) family contexts defined conjointly by family social status and parents' perceived aspirations have medium to large associations with ad…
Sibling Effects, Environmental Influences, and School Dropout
Relations were examined between sibling variables, environmental influences, and the likelihood of dropping out of school. Data were collected from Australian adolescents (4,096 boys, 4,570 girls). Findings indicated that, after taking into account measures of distal contexts and proximal learning settings, sibling variables continued to have small but significant associations with adolescents' school dropout behavior
Sibling Dilution Hypothesis: A Regression Surface Analysis
This study examined relationships between sibship size (the number of children in a family), birth order, and measures of academic performance, academic self-concept, and educational aspirations at different levels of family educational resources. As part of a national longitudinal study of Australian secondary school students data were collected from 2,530 boys and 2,450 girls in Years 9 and 10. Regression surfaces were constructed from models t…
Sibling Dilution Hypothesis: A Regression Surface Analysis
Family and Ability Correlates of Academic Achievement
Family Capital and South African Young Adults' Self-Concept
INTRODUCTION In development of bioecological model of human development, Bronfenbrenner (1994:1645) and Bronfenbrenner and Ceci (1994) proposed that family learning environments can be conceived of as set of nested structures each inside other like set of Russian dolls. The proximal or immediate settings (Microsystems) in which parent-child interactions occur and linkages between those settings (mesosystems), are considered to be embedded in more…
Family and Individual Correlates of Academic Goal Orientations: Social Context Differences in South Africa
Family and Individual Correlates of Academic Goal Orientations: Social Context Differences in South Africa
This study examined relationships between distal social contexts, parents' support for learning, self-concept, and adolescents' academic goal orientations. Data were collected from 435 female and 410 male 18-yr.-old South Africans. Multistage regression analyses indicated that family social status and rural/urban locality had unmediated relations with the adolescents' learning and performance goal orientations. In addition, parent and self-concep…
Ethnicity, Birth Order, and Family Environment
Relationships were examined between birth order and family environment for children from different ethnic groups. Data were collected from 820 11-yr.-olds and their parents from Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian families. The findings indicated that there were modest significant relations between birth order and measures of parents' aspirations, parental involvement, and parenting style and that the linear and curvilinear nature of the assoc…
Family Background, Social and Academic Capital, and Adolescents' Aspirations: A Mediational Analysis
Differential mental abilities and home environment: A canonical analysis
Ethnic and Environmental Influences on Mental Abilities
The extent to which ethnic group differences in intellectual test performance can be attributed to environmental forces remains unresolved. In this study, the relationship between a refined measure of the learning environment of the home and the levels and profiles of a set of mental ability scores of children from five Canadian ethnic groups was examined. After accounting for the "independent" influence of the environment, significant ethnic gro…
Ethnicity, families as opportunity structures and adolescents' aspirations
Longitudinal data were used to examine relationships between the opportunity structures of early family environments as defined by parents, adolescents' perceptions of later family opportunity structures, and adolescents' educational and occupational aspirations. Data were collected from sixteen-year-olds and their parents from Anglo-Australian, English, southern Italian and Greek groups, within Australia. For the analysis, regression surfaces we…
Stereotyping among Aboriginal and Anglo-Australians: The Uniformity, Intensity,Direction, and Quality of Auto- and Heterostereotypes
Procedures suggested by Triandis et al. (1982) were used to examine the auto-and heterostereotypes of Aboriginal- and Anglo-Australian adolescents. The sample included 90 Aboriginal- and 260 Anglo-Australian grade 9 and 11 students. Each student responded to schedules that included attributes arranged on bipolar scales. The attributes were selected only after extensive discussions with Aboriginal- and Anglo-Australian adults. The heterostereo-typ…
Ethnicity, Proximal Family Environment, and Young Adolescents' Cognitive Performance
This study examined relations between ethnicity, family environments, and young adolescents' cognitive performance. A model of proximal family learning environment was constructed that included measures of family human capital, parenting style, parents' aspirations, and parenting practices. Data were collected from 800 young adolescents and their parents from Anglo-Australian, English, Greek, and Southern Italian groups within Australia. The anal…
Learning Environments, Goal Orientations, and Interest in Music
This study is an examination of relationships among family background, family and school learning environments, goal orientations, and students' interest in music. Data were collected from 18-year-old black South African students, 340 women and 285 men, whose main language was Isi Xhosa. Findings indicated that when family background was defined conjointly by family social status and parents' aspirations, (a) family background, gender, family and…
Birth order, family size, social class, and intelligence
Lack of understanding concerning the relationship between sibling constellation variables and intelligence is attributed to serious methodological and statistical shortcomings of research. A study of 400000 19-year-old Dutch men overcame many of these methodological shortcomings although it relied on a conservative statistical analysis which prevented the revelation of the character of the relationships between variables. The use of complex multi…
Ethnicity and Learning Patterns: A Replication and an Explanation
Eleven-year old boys and their parents from five Canadian ethnic groups were used in an examination of the relationships between ethnicity, social class and the levels and patterns of a set of mental ability test scores. It was found that: (a) both social class and ethnicity influenced the level of intellectual performance, but that (b) different patterns of abilities associated with ethnic group membership remained invariant across social class …
Ethnic and Environmental Influences on Mental Abilities
The extent to which ethnic group differences in intellectual test performance can be attributed to environmental forces remains unresolved. In this study, the relationship between a refined measure of the learning environment of the home and the levels and profiles of a set of mental ability scores of children from five Canadian ethnic groups was examined. After accounting for the "independent" influence of the environment, significant ethnic gro…
Psychosocial Environments of Learning: An International Perspective
One of the major research problems of comparative education is to determine to what extent variability in school 'productivity' measures can be attributed to the relative influence of school structure characteristics and societal factors. During the past decade the problem has been examined in a set of large-scale national and cross-national studies (e.g. Project Talent 1962, Coleman 1966, Plowden 1967, Husen 1967, Postlethwaite 1967, Peaker 1971…
Differential mental abilities and home environment: A canonical analysis
Education: Structure and Society
Family Environment: Sibling Constellation and Social Class Correlates
Eleven-year-old boys and their parents from southern Ontario, Canada, were used to examine relations among sibling constellation variables, social status indicators and a set of parent-sibling interaction variables which were highly predictive of mental ability performance. A two-term equation including father's occupation and either sibsize or the inverse of sibsize parsimoniously accounted for as much significant variance in the parent-sibling …
Kerlinger's Theory of Social Attitudes: An Analysis
460 17-yr.-old secondary school students in England and Wales completed three social attitude questionnaires. From second-order factor analysis the findings suggest that the aggregate structure of social attitudes is not basically unidimensional and bipolar but rather dualistic, which provides support for a theory of the structure of social attitudes developed by Kerlinger
Birth order, family size, social class, and intelligence
Lack of understanding concerning the relationship between sibling constellation variables and intelligence is attributed to serious methodological and statistical shortcomings of research. A study of 400000 19-year-old Dutch men overcame many of these methodological shortcomings although it relied on a conservative statistical analysis which prevented the revelation of the character of the relationships between variables. The use of complex multi…
Academic Achievement, Intelligence, and Creativity: A Regression Surface Analysis
Data collected on 400 12-year-old English school children were used to examine relations between measures of intelligence, creativity and academic achievement. Complex multiple regression models, which included terms to account for the possible interaction and curvilinear relations between intelligence, creativity and academic achievement were used to construct regression surfaces. The surfaces showed that the traditional threshold hypothesis, wh…
Birth Order, Family Environment, and Mental Abilities: A Regression Surface Analysis
Regression surface analysis was used to examine relationships between birth order and the cognitive performance of 11-yr.-old Canadian boys. A detailed assessment of the family environment was included. At each level of family environment birth order has little or no relation with mental ability scores but, if families create differential learning environments for their children, then the regression surfaces indicate that a child's position in a …
Arts/Science Students and Social Attitudes
Three social attitude questionnaires were administered to 380 17-yr.-old British students (160 science specialists and 220 arts specialists) to test the proposition that science students tend to adopt authoritarian attitudes while arts students are more likely to have views that are liberal and non-authoritarian. On nine attitude factors, which were generated from an analysis of the responses to the questionnaires, there were no significant diffe…
Ethnicity, Family Environment and Cognitive Performance
Relations between scores on a new family environment interview schedule and the intelligence, mathematics, word knowledge and word comprehension scores of 850 11-yr.-old girls and boys from Australian ethnic groups were examined. The groups included lower social-status: Southern Italian, Anglo-Australian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, and English, as well as middle social-status Anglo-Australian families. After accounting for joint effects and the uniqu…
Religious Affiliation, Church Attendance and Social Attitudes
A conservation scale was administered to 219 17-yr.-old English students to examine the relations between religious affiliations, church attendance, and social attitudes. The results provided support for the proposition that students who expressed a religious affiliation and attended church had more conservative attitudes than students without a religious affiliation and who did not attend church
Birth Order, Age Spacing between Siblings, and Cognitive Performance
Regression surface analysis was used to examine the confluence model which proposes that the relations between birth order and intellectual ability are accounted for by the age spacing between adjacent siblings. The model was extended to investigate relationships between birth order, age spacing between older and younger adjacent siblings, and measures of intelligence, mathematics, word knowledge, word comprehension, the language environment of t…
Social Attitudes: Social Status and Sibling Constellation Correlates
Regression surface analysis was used to examine Adler's proposition that adults' social attitudes are related to siblings' variables and that the relations vary at different levels of family social situations. Surfaces were constructed from regression models which examined possible linear, interaction and curvilinear relations between birth order and sibsize and measures of dogmatism, radical-conservative attitudes, and tough-minded versus tender…
Ethnicity, Family Environment and Cognitive Performance: A Regression Surface Analysis
Regression surface analysis was used to examine relations between the family environment and measures of academic achievement at different levels of intellectual ability, for children from different Australian ethnic groups. The sample included 800 11- year-old child ren and their parents from five ethclass groups, middle social-status AngloAustralian (140 families), and lower social-status: Anglo-Austra I ian (250 families}, English (120), Greek…
Schools, families and children's achievements
An Adlerian Typology of School Learning Environments and Children's Feelings of Inferiority
Canonical correlation analysis was used to examine a proposition derived from Adler's Theory of Individual Psychology that, if children perceive their school learning environment as consisting of interrelated supportive communities then they express diminished feelings of inferiority at school. A new school environment scale was constructed using Adler's typology of school environments as a framework. The scale assesses five interrelated school c…
Teachers' Social Attitudes and Their Attitudes to Education
The study examined relations between teachers' social attitudes and their attitudes to education. Included in the sample were 100 female and 130 male teachers from Australian secondary schools. Typically, the findings show that teachers with traditional attitudes to education also express conservative social attitudes. If changing teachers' attitudes to education is considered as an essential component of school innovation programs, then the resu…
Parents' orientation to Bilingual Education: Social status and ethnic group differences
Social Attitudes and School Curriculum Socialization
The study examined the proposition that school-curriculum organization has differential socialization influences on children's social attitudes. Data were collected from 430 final-year students from six secondary schools in the south of England. The students, who were classified into the curriculum categories of arts, physical science, or mixed, completed four attitude scales from which 10 social-attitude factors were generated. Only modest suppo…
Birth Order and Family Learning Environments
Discriminant analysis was used to examine relations between birth order and profiles of dimensions of family learning environments. Data were collected from 885 Australian families. Each family had an 11-yr.-old child and the analyses related to those children, 442 girls and 443 boys. A semi-structured interview schedule was used to assess the environmental dimensions of parents': achievement orientations, press for English, press for reading, pr…
Sibling and environment correlates of children's achievement: Sex group differences
Regression surface analysis was used to examine associations between sibling variables and measures of academic achievement and intellectual ability at different levels of social status and family environment variables for girls and boys. The sample was 460 Anglo‐Australian families, each with an 11‐year‐old child. Family environments were defined by parents’ aspirations for their children and parents’ instrumental and affective orientations. Reg…
Sibling and family environment correlates of children's achievement: Ethnic group differences
Regression surface analysis was used to examine relationships between sibling variables and measures of cognitive performance at different levels of family environment measures, for children from different Australian ethnic groups. Included in the sample were 460 Anglo-Australian, 170 Greek, and 120 Southern Italian families. Each family had an 11-year-old child and interviews with parents related to those children. There were no associations bet…
The Relationship of Children's Academic Achievement to Social Status and Family Learning Environment
Hierarchical regression analyses and response surfaces were used to examine interrelationships among social status, family learning environment, and children's academic achievement. Data were collected from 11-year-old Australian children (447 girls and 471 boys) and their parents. Family environment was assessed by using home interviews to measure the aspirations of parents and their instrumental and affective educational orientations. The uniqu…
Psychology (94 works) · Developmental psychology (85 works) · Social Psychology (53 works) · Sociology (50 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (43 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (39 works) · Social Psychology (38 works) · Demography (36 works) · Demography (26 works) · Ethnic group (23 works)