Academic disparities and health: How gender-based disparities in schools relate to boys' and girls' health.

ABSTRACT: RATIONALE:Recent research reveals that, although girls encounter some barriers in school (e.g., in science and math), on balance, boys perform worse academically. Moreover, other research has identified a correlation between exposure to a context characterized by large disparities in performance or resources and a range of negative outcomes, including negative health and well-being, among members of lower status groups. OBJECTIVE:Building on these literatures, the present research tests the relationship between gender disparities in academic performance within a school and students' health outcomes. Specifically, we investigated whether boys had worse health when they attended schools where there was a greater disparity between boys' and girls' academic performance. METHOD:We tested this h

SUBMITTER: Levine CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6744256 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature