Study examines school influences on public regard and ethnic-racial identity in adolescents, suggesting significant impacts of belonging and discrimination.
Key Points
This research investigates how school environments affect adolescents' beliefs about their ethnic-racial group's social standing, specifically public regard.
Examined a diverse sample of Black, Asian American, and Latine adolescents over a school year.
Assessed the relationships among school discrimination, school belonging, and public regard.
Utilized an ecological systems framework for analysis.
Higher school belonging at the beginning of the year correlated with increased public regard by the end of the year.
Increased school discrimination was linked to reduced public regard over the same period.
No significant differences were found in these relationships across different ethnic-racial groups.