Longitudinal Associations Linking Elementary and Middle School Contexts with Student Aggression in Early Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Growing up in poverty increases youth risk for developing aggressive behavior problems, which, in turn, are associated with a host of problematic outcomes, including school drop-out, substance use, mental health problems, and delinquency. In part, this may be due to exposure to adverse school contexts that create socialization influences supporting aggression. In the current study, 356 children from low-income families (58% White, 17% Latinx, 25% Black; 54% girls) were followed from preschool through seventh grade. Longitudinal data included measures of the school-level contexts experienced by study participants during their elementary and middle school years, including school levels of poverty (percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch) and academic achievement (percent

SUBMITTER: Sanders MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9134317 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature