Open AccessAcademic Performance and Family Cohesion in a Private Junior High School in the U.S. – Mexico Border
Author(s) -
Ana Magdalena Cruz-Ramos,
Yolanda Heredia Escorza,
Bertha Yvonne Can
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v7n5p31
Subject(s) - cohesion (chemistry) , psychology , academic achievement , test (biology) , positive correlation , affect (linguistics) , positive relationship , social psychology , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , developmental psychology , medicine , statistics , paleontology , chemistry , mathematics , organic chemistry , communication , biology
This paper summarizes the results to the research question: what is the relationship between academic performance and family cohesion? Given the various factors to which humans are exposed within their academic journey, the interest arose to analyze how family relationships affect the academic performance. This study was conducted in a private secondary school in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The objective was to determine whether there is an influence of family cohesion on academic performance. Data was collected using the FACES III test, a socio-demographic questionnaire, and the student transcripts. The Pearson correlation test showed that there is a moderate positive correlation between family cohesion and academic performance, r(128) = .316, p < .05. The relationship between these two variables did not differ in the light of the participants’ gender.