Constance M Yowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 2165403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance M Yowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yowell |
| SIGNATURE | YOWELL C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mentor-mentee similarity in college peer mentoring
Using a quasi-experimental study we examine the effects of similarity-matching, or matching on shared background characteristics, between incoming college students (N = 2072) and their peer mentors, on academic, well-being, relationship, and application engagement outcomes. Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Multiple Linear Regression were used to analyze data leveraged from a university-wide technology-enabled peer mentoring program for incoming f…
Dreams of the Future
To better inform educational policies for Latino students, this study explores the relations between Latino students' conceptions of their futures and their risk status for school dropout. Using the theory of possible selves, the study examines students' hoped-for, expected, and feared selves, the power of those selves to predict risk status for school dropout, and the content of their specificity and ideological beliefs. Four hundred fifteen nin…
Possible Selves and Future Orientation
To explore the structure and function of the aspirations of Latino boys and girls, theoretical and methodological approaches of future orientation and possible selves were integrated. In interviews with 38 students, the content, priority, optimism, internality, temporal extension, and specificity of students’ hoped-for selves were assessed. Students showed high educational and occupational aspirations and high rates of optimism and internal contr…
Risks of Communication Early Adolescent Girls' Conversations with Mothers and Friends about Sexuality
Explored in this study were the ways in which mothers and their early adolescent daughters experience their communication with each other about sexuality-related topics; those experiences were compared with daughters' experiences of communication with best friends about similar topics. Twelve early adolescent girls between 11 and 13 years of age participated in separately audio recorded conversations with their mothers and with their best friends…
Youth Empowerment and Human Service Institutions
This article critiques recent efforts to improve the capacity of human service institutions to meet the needs of urban youth. It identifies as an important risk factor the dissonance between these youth's cultural identities and the norms of the social institutions serving them. The authors suggest that efforts to overcome this dissonance focus on a reconceptualization of professionalism among youth providers, whereupon the primary goals of servi…
Educational remedies for school segregation
Possible Selves and Future Orientation
To explore the structure and function of the aspirations of Latino boys and girls, theoretical and methodological approaches of future orientation and possible selves were integrated. In interviews with 38 students, the content, priority, optimism, internality, temporal extension, and specificity of students’ hoped-for selves were assessed. Students showed high educational and occupational aspirations and high rates of optimism and internal contr…
Youth Empowerment and Human Service Institutions
This article critiques recent efforts to improve the capacity of human service institutions to meet the needs of urban youth. It identifies as an important risk factor the dissonance between these youth's cultural identities and the norms of the social institutions serving them. The authors suggest that efforts to overcome this dissonance focus on a reconceptualization of professionalism among youth providers, whereupon the primary goals of servi…
Risks of Communication Early Adolescent Girls' Conversations with Mothers and Friends about Sexuality
Explored in this study were the ways in which mothers and their early adolescent daughters experience their communication with each other about sexuality-related topics; those experiences were compared with daughters' experiences of communication with best friends about similar topics. Twelve early adolescent girls between 11 and 13 years of age participated in separately audio recorded conversations with their mothers and with their best friends…
Educational remedies for school segregation
Youth Empowerment and Human Service Institutions
This article critiques recent efforts to improve the capacity of human service institutions to meet the needs of urban youth. It identifies as an important risk factor the dissonance between these youth's cultural identities and the norms of the social institutions serving them. The authors suggest that efforts to overcome this dissonance focus on a reconceptualization of professionalism among youth providers, whereupon the primary goals of servi…
Risks of Communication Early Adolescent Girls' Conversations with Mothers and Friends about Sexuality
Explored in this study were the ways in which mothers and their early adolescent daughters experience their communication with each other about sexuality-related topics; those experiences were compared with daughters' experiences of communication with best friends about similar topics. Twelve early adolescent girls between 11 and 13 years of age participated in separately audio recorded conversations with their mothers and with their best friends…
Possible Selves and Future Orientation
To explore the structure and function of the aspirations of Latino boys and girls, theoretical and methodological approaches of future orientation and possible selves were integrated. In interviews with 38 students, the content, priority, optimism, internality, temporal extension, and specificity of students’ hoped-for selves were assessed. Students showed high educational and occupational aspirations and high rates of optimism and internal contr…
Dreams of the Future
To better inform educational policies for Latino students, this study explores the relations between Latino students' conceptions of their futures and their risk status for school dropout. Using the theory of possible selves, the study examines students' hoped-for, expected, and feared selves, the power of those selves to predict risk status for school dropout, and the content of their specificity and ideological beliefs. Four hundred fifteen nin…
Mentor-mentee similarity in college peer mentoring
Using a quasi-experimental study we examine the effects of similarity-matching, or matching on shared background characteristics, between incoming college students (N = 2072) and their peer mentors, on academic, well-being, relationship, and application engagement outcomes. Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Multiple Linear Regression were used to analyze data leveraged from a university-wide technology-enabled peer mentoring program for incoming f…
Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (2 works) · Academic achievement (1 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Career Development and Diversity (1 works)