Abstract
Most research of adult education participation has focused on the causal antecedent of such participation rather than the factors which, in turn, might be influenced by adult education participation. Utilizing conventional techniques of path analysis, this study is an examination of the possible effects the adult educa tion participation of Mexican-American small businessmen, together with their formal educational attainment and work experience, have on their attitudinal and behavioral patterns of individual modernity, adoption of modern business practices, and their occupational achievement (meaured in terms of net business income). The analysis is based on data collected by interviews with 60 shopkeepers in the three most populous Mexican-American neighborhoods in Chicago during the summer and autumn of 1975. Findings indicated adult education participation contributed directly to higher levels of individual modernity and adoption of modern business practices and, via this latter variable, indirectly to occupational achievement.
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