School Discrimination and Changes in Latinx Adolescents' Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms.

ABSTRACT: U.S. Latinx youth are growing up in an environment characterized by increased anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric, including experiences of discrimination. Given the salience of the school setting for youth's development, it is important to understand how experiences of discrimination by teachers and other adults at school, or school discrimination, relate to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of today's Latinx adolescents. Study participants include 547 Latinx adolescents selected at random from a large, suburban school district in Atlanta, Georgia (55.4% female; age M = 12.8, range = 11-16). Youth provided two time points of survey data spaced roughly 6 months apart during 2018 and 2019. Structural equation models (SEM) were used to test the main and interaction effects of school dis

SUBMITTER: Bennett M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9466984 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature