Social Bonds Across Immigrant Generations: Bonding to School and Examining the Relevance of Assimilation

Study findings suggest that adolescents' school bond apparently diminished or "declined" as the children of immigrants assimilated. Implications for research on racial/ethnic and immigrant generational disparities in adolescent social bonds to school are also discussed. Data were drawn from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, which involved a nationally representative sample of 10th graders. The study focused on a subsample that consisted of 9,870 first- (N = 1,170, 12 percent), second- (N = 1,540, 16 percent), and third-plus-generation (N = 7,160, 73 percent) students in 580 public schools. (Publisher abstract modified)