Anglo-American and Mexican American University Students' Estimation of Value Placed on Higher Educational Attainments by Significant Persons in Their Lives

This study was designed to determine the degree of value that academically successful university 4th-year students from 2 cultural populations in American society place on higher educational attainments, such as the baccalaureate degree, and to yield information on the value that their parents and 4 other significant persons in their lives place on higher educational attainments based on the students' own perceptions and estimations.