The moderating effect of perceived social support from friends in the associations between school-based racial discrimination and academic outcomes among Latinx adolescents

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL Social Psychology of Education Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI:10.1007/s11218-023-09878-9

Michelle F. Wright, Sebastian Wachs

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between school-based racial discrimination by teachers and peers and academic outcomes (i.e., classroom misconduct, absenteeism, academic performance, school readiness, and school behavioral problems) over one year (Time 2) through the moderation of perceived social support from friends. Participants were 599 Latinx adolescents (56% girls; M_age = 14.51, SD = .55) from middle schools located in the suburbs of a large Midwestern United States city. They completed questionnaires on their perceived school-based racial discrimination and social support from friends. Their teachers completed questionnaires on classroom misconduct and school readiness, measured twice over one year. School records of academic performance, absenteeism, and school behavioral problems were also collected twice over one year. The findings indicated that social support from friends was negatively associated with Time 2 classroom misconduct, absenteeism, and school behavioral problem, but positively associated with Time 2 school readiness and academic performance. School-based racial discrimination by teachers and peers were both related positively to Time 2 classroom misconduct, absenteeism, and school behavioral problems, whereas both types of discrimination were related negatively to Time 2 school readiness and academic performance. Social support from friends buffered against academic outcomes associated with discrimination by teachers. Similar patterns were found for discrimination by peers, but only for Time 2 academic performance and absenteeism. These results suggest that high perceived social support from friends positively impacts Latinx adolescents’ academic outcomes after experiencing school-based racial discrimination while low levels increase such negative outcomes.

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在拉美裔青少年中，来自朋友的社会支持对学校种族歧视和学习成绩之间关系的调节作用

本研究的目的是通过调节感知到的来自朋友的社会支持，调查一年来（时间 2）教师和同学基于学校的种族歧视与学业成绩（即课堂不当行为、旷课、学业成绩、入学准备和学校行为问题）之间的关联。参与者为美国中西部某大城市郊区中学的 599 名拉丁裔青少年（56% 为女生；Mage = 14.51，SD = .55）。他们填写了关于学校种族歧视感知和来自朋友的社会支持的问卷。他们的老师填写了关于课堂不当行为和入学准备情况的问卷，一年内测量两次。此外，还收集了学校一年内两次关于学习成绩、旷课和学校行为问题的记录。研究结果表明，来自朋友的社会支持与第二阶段的课堂不当行为、旷课和学校行为问题呈负相关，但与第二阶段的入学准备和学习成绩呈正相关。教师和同学基于学校的种族歧视与第二阶段的课堂不当行为、旷课和学校行为问题呈正相关，而这两种歧视与第二阶段的入学准备和学业成绩呈负相关。来自朋友的社会支持对与教师歧视相关的学业成绩起到了缓冲作用。同伴歧视也有类似的情况，但只与第二阶段的学业成绩和旷课有关。这些结果表明，来自朋友的高感知社会支持会对拉美裔青少年遭受学校种族歧视后的学业成绩产生积极影响，而低水平的社会支持则会增加这种负面影响。

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Social Psychology of Education PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL-

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期刊介绍： The field of social psychology spans the boundary between the disciplines of psychology and sociology and has traditionally been associated with empirical research. Many studies of human behaviour in education are conducted by persons who identify with social psychology or whose work falls into the social psychological ambit. Several textbooks have been published and a variety of courses are being offered on the `social psychology of education'', but no journal has hitherto appeared to cover the field. Social Psychology of Education fills this gap, covering a wide variety of content concerns, theoretical interests and research methods, among which are: Content concerns: classroom instruction decision making in education educational innovation concerns for gender, race, ethnicity and social class knowledge creation, transmission and effects leadership in schools and school systems long-term effects of instructional processes micropolitics of schools student cultures and interactions teacher recruitment and careers teacher- student relations Theoretical interests: achievement motivation attitude theory attribution theory conflict management and the learning of pro-social behaviour cultural and social capital discourse analysis group dynamics role theory social exchange theory social transition social learning theory status attainment symbolic interaction the study of organisations Research methods: comparative research experiments formal observations historical studies literature reviews panel studies qualitative methods sample surveys For social psychologists with a special interest in educational matters, educational researchers with a social psychological approach.