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Laura McLaughlin Gonzalez

**Education: PhD, Counselor Education, North Carolina State University--MEd, College Counseling, University of Delaware--BA, Women’s Studies with a minor in Biology, Colgate University

There are 6 included publications by Laura McLaughlin Gonzalez :

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Adjustment of Undergraduate Latino Students at a Southeastern University Cultural Components of Academic and Social Integration 2008 215 College campuses in the southeast United States are striving to understand and serve their newly arriving Latino students to promote adjustment and academic success. The purpose of this article is to outline the cultural components of academic and so...
College level choice of Latino high school students: A social cognitive approach. 2012 227 Latino students attend 2-year colleges more often than 4-year colleges. This has an impact on the rate of bachelor's degree attainment, because the transfer rate between the 2 levels is low. The author uses national data to identify predictors associ...
Cultural stressors and the hopelessness model of depressive symptoms in Latino adolescents. 2012 1 Depressive symptoms in Latino youth have been related to both culturally-universal and culturally-based stressors. However, few studies have examined the unique contributions of culturally-based stressors above and beyond other types of stressors. Mo...
Gendered academic adjustment among Asian American adolescents in an emerging immigrant community. 2012 1 Research on the academic adjustment of immigrant adolescents has been predominately conducted in large cities among established migration areas. To broaden the field’s restricted focus, data from 172 (58% female) Asian American adolescents who reside...
Latino Students in New Arrival States: Factors and Services to Prevent Youth From Dropping Out 2010 150 Latino youth are more likely than any other ethnic group to drop out of high school in the United States. Though some research has helped us understand the factors leading to dropout, very few studies have assessed Latino student’s opinions of servic...
Patching the Leaky Pipeline 2002 173 The United States faces the critical task of graduating large numbers of individuals in mathematics, science, technical, and engineering fields. The first-year orientation course described uses female-friendly practices to provide support, promote ac...