Trajectories of ethnic discrimination and school adjustment of ethnically minoritized adolescents: The role of school diversity climate.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated trajectories of ethnic discrimination experiences in school, diversity climates as contextual antecedents, and school adjustment as outcome. Latent-Growth-Mixture-Models of repeated self-reported discrimination over 3 years (2012-2015) by 1445 ethnically-minoritized adolescents of Turkish and Moroccan background in 70 Belgian schools (52.6% boys, M _age = 15.07) revealed four trajectories: low (72.5%), moderate (16.6%), initially-high (6.5%), or increasingly high discrimination (4.4%). Adolescents who attended schools with more minoritized peers, or schools that valued cultural diversity and equality, were more often in low-discrimination trajectories, which predicted better academic outcomes. Overall, school diversity climates can protect minoritized adol

SUBMITTER: Baysu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579631 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature