%0 Thesis %1 morales_high_1999 %A Morales, Erik Erling %C New York %D 1999 %K EDUCATION, Higher, OF SOCIOLOGY %T High achieving Dominican-American students: Portraits in resiliency %X This study explores the lives of five academically resilient Dominican American college students at a selective private university. The conceptual framework used to guide the inquiry is based on the assumption that there will be certain protective factors that will play significant roles in these students' defiance of the odds, and ultimate academic achievement. In exploring these lives, particular attention is focused on the protective factors operational in the process of their academic resiliency. One of the key objectives was to identify these factors and gain an understanding of the processes which activate them. Protective factors are identified for each of the individual interviewees and for the group as a whole. Another key objective is to ascertain the degree to which existing research on academically resilient students is applicable to a group not previously included in the resilience literature, Dominican Americans. For the purposes of analysis and presentation, the protective factors are placed into one of three sections of the characteristic triad of protective factors: dispositional, environmental, and familial. Additionally, for each of the students a brief demographic sketch of their original neighborhoods and a look at their “educational stories” are also included. At the end of each individual's section, a summary and synthesis of the student's academic resilience is provided. In looking at the entire group, partially and fully shared protective factors are identified and explored. In terms of the degree to which previous resilience literature was in fact applicable to Dominican American students, this study finds that the literature is highly applicable to the experience of Dominican Americans. The applicability was particularly strong when identifying protective factors that were present, but less so in reflecting the underlying processes of those protective factors. While the literature reflected what was useful for these students, it did not reflect how it was useful. In addition to the identification of significant protective factors for both the individuals and the group, this study develops the idea of an underlying process of the protective factors in a “resilience sequence.”

@phdthesis{morales_high_1999, abstract = {This study explores the lives of five academically resilient Dominican American college students at a selective private university. The conceptual framework used to guide the inquiry is based on the assumption that there will be certain protective factors that will play significant roles in these students' defiance of the odds, and ultimate academic achievement. In exploring these lives, particular attention is focused on the protective factors operational in the process of their academic resiliency. One of the key objectives was to identify these factors and gain an understanding of the processes which activate them. Protective factors are identified for each of the individual interviewees and for the group as a whole. Another key objective is to ascertain the degree to which existing research on academically resilient students is applicable to a group not previously included in the resilience literature, Dominican Americans. For the purposes of analysis and presentation, the protective factors are placed into one of three sections of the characteristic triad of protective factors: dispositional, environmental, and familial. Additionally, for each of the students a brief demographic sketch of their original neighborhoods and a look at their \“educational stories\” are also included. At the end of each individual's section, a summary and synthesis of the student's academic resilience is provided. In looking at the entire group, partially and fully shared protective factors are identified and explored. In terms of the degree to which previous resilience literature was in fact applicable to Dominican American students, this study finds that the literature is highly applicable to the experience of Dominican Americans. The applicability was particularly strong when identifying protective factors that were present, but less so in reflecting the underlying processes of those protective factors. While the literature reflected what was useful for these students, it did not reflect how it was useful. In addition to the identification of significant protective factors for both the individuals and the group, this study develops the idea of an underlying process of the protective factors in a \“resilience sequence.\”}, added-at = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, address = {New York}, author = {Morales, Erik Erling}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/285fa645bd1a5c0875c14bd5a69718667/prophe}, interhash = {08d8619b582440fce7eaa2f939e0bde9}, intrahash = {85fa645bd1a5c0875c14bd5a69718667}, keywords = {EDUCATION, Higher, OF SOCIOLOGY}, school = {New York University}, shorttitle = {High achieving {Dominican}-{American} students: {Portraits} in resiliency}, timestamp = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, title = {High achieving {Dominican}-{American} students: {Portraits} in resiliency}, type = {{PhD} {Thesis}}, year = 1999 }