School Matters: The Effects of School Experiences on Youth's Attitudes toward Immigrants.

ABSTRACT: Although schools have been described as an important socialization context for the development of intergroup attitudes, longitudinal multilevel studies are still rare within this field. This 3-wave study (with annual assessments) of German adolescents (N = 1292; M_age = 13.86; 51.8% female) examined the role of school experiences (perceived multicultural education, supportive peer relations in class, democratic classroom climate) in the development of youth's negative attitudes toward immigrants. Longitudinal multilevel analyses revealed that a democratic classroom climate predicted youth's attitudes at the individual level. At the classroom level class-average perceptions of a democratic classroom climate, supportive peer relations in class, and multicultural education (the latt

SUBMITTER: Eckstein K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8505319 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature