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Citation

Bottiani JH, Bradshaw CP, Mendelson T. J. Youth Adolesc. 2016; 45(6): 1176-1191.

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 642 N. Broadway, Hampton House 853, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. tmendel1@jhu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10964-015-0411-0

PMID

26746243

Abstract

Supportive relationships with adults at school are critical to student engagement in adolescence. Additional research is needed to understand how students' racial backgrounds interact with the school context to shape their perceptions of school support. This study employed multilevel, latent variable methods with a sample of Black and White students (N = 19,726, 35.8 % Black, 49.9 % male, mean age = 15.9) in 58 high schools to explore variation in perceived caring, equity, and high expectations by student race, school diversity, and socioeconomic context. The results indicated that Black students perceived less caring and equity relative to White students overall, and that equity and high expectations were lower in diverse schools for both Black and White students. Nonetheless, racial disparities were attenuated in more diverse schools. The findings point to the need for intervention to improve perceptions of school support for Black youth and for all students in lower income and more diverse schools.


Language: en

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