School adjustment of the Gypsy people: Relevancy of the determinant psychosocial variables.

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to analyze the integration of the children belonging to the gypsy ethnic in age of primary education in his school group and identify the determinant factors of this adjustment. We have worked with the whole population of students of Corvera’s council of Asturias (composed by 42 gypsy children and not gypsy 439). The results indicate a poor integration of the gypsy children in his group of class, both in the academic activities and in the relative ones to the free time and of leisure. They found factors of risk for the rejection in the set of familiar evaluated variables, as well as in of the personnels. The most relevant factors of risk to predict the integration in the group of couples are the educational and academic level of the parents and mothers, the interest for the school activities of the children and the social sensibility towards his companions between others. They present the implications of these results and the lines of intervention to developing in the future for a better integration of the gypsy ethnic.

CITE AS:

Hernández Granda, E., Rodríguez Díaz, F.J. & Moral Jiménez, M.V. (2011). Adaptación escolar de la etnia gitana: relevancia de las variables psicosociales determinantes. Apuntes de Psicología, 29, 87-105.