Ethnic Identity and the Adolescent’s Academic Performance

Ethnic identity can play an influential role during the adolescent development stage. The impact of ethnic and racial identity formation has been explored in past research and is certainly an area that should be more thoroughly examined. This study explored the relationship between academic self-efficacy, ethnic identity, sex, and socioeconomic status with academic performance. Ethnic identity and socioeconomic status were not found to be statistically significant. This finding was contrary to some previous research findings that found ethnic identity to play a significant role in the increasing or decreasing of adolescents’ academic success. Due to this knowledge, the researchers will focus on how ethnic identity can play an influential role in the academic performance of adolescents.