ERIC Number: EJ1290446
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Apr
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4391
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Intersectional Differences in Protective School Assets by Sexuality, Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status
Coulter, Robert W. S.; Paglisotti, Taylor; Montano, Gerald; Bodnar, Kaitlin; Bersamin, Melina; Russell, Stephen T.; Hill, Ashley V.; Mair, Christina; Miller, Elizabeth
Journal of School Health, v91 n4 p318-330 Apr 2021
Background: School assets--such as connectedness, caring relationships with adults, high behavioral expectations from adults, and meaningful participation--are associated with positive outcomes for adolescents. However, little is known about how school assets differ among adolescents with intersecting marginalized identities. Methods: We used the 2013-2014 California Healthy Kids Survey (N = 320,462 students) to examine differences in school assets with respect to sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status using adjusted multilevel linear regression models. Results: Sexual minority, gender minority, racial/ethnic minority, and low socioeconomic status adolescents had significantly lower protective school assets. For all outcomes, the differences between sexual minority and heterosexual adolescents were more pronounced among nontransgender girls than nontransgender boys; however, these differences were not consistently present among racial/ethnic minority students. For school connectedness and meaningful participation, differences for racial/ethnic minorities versus white adolescents were more pronounced among nontransgender girls than nontransgender boys. Differences between transgender adolescents and nontransgender boys were more pronounced for white adolescents compared to some other racial/ethnic minority students. Overall, adolescents with certain multiple marginalized identities had lower school assets. Conclusions: Interventions are needed to strengthen school assets among marginalized students, thereby helping mitigate health and education inequities.
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sexuality, Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Student Characteristics, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students, LGBTQ People, At Risk Students, Ethnicity, Student School Relationship, Student Participation, Identification (Psychology)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH); National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) (DHHS/NIH); National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) (NIH); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (DHHS/PHS)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: K24HD075862; TL1TR001858; K01AA027564; F31DA037647
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