%0 Journal Article
%T School Foci and Their Potential Ramifications in Urban High Schools
%A Christian E. Mueller
%A Krystal L. McCutchen
%A Martin H. Jones
%J Youth & Society
%@ 1552-8499
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0044118X16685656
%X The study examined the relationship among students¡¯ focus in urban schools and three educationally relevant psychological factors: school engagement, achievement goals, and possible future self. A 1-year study at two urban high schools with a total of 212 participants suggested that academically focused students are more highly engaged with mastery-approach goals, whereas students with a social focus had less optimal engagement and more performance goal orientations. Both academic and social focus indicated strongest relationships with academic future self and social future self, respectively
%K engagement
%K motivation
%K urban
%K possible selves
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0044118X16685656