Author ORCID Identifier
Santo - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2057-1519
da Cunha - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4003-6847
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-17-2023
Publication Title
Frontiers in Psychology
Volume
8
Abstract
Introduction: The current study aimed to expand on the existing literature by examining the effect of race-based victimization on academic functioning in a nation-wide sample of Brazilian youth.
Methods: The ENEM 2009 dataset contained academic functioning scores of 795,924 Brazilian students from 25,488 schools.
Results: Above and beyond the effect of general victimization, ethnic/racial victimization was significantly negatively related to academic functioning with differences across ethnic/racial groups in the effects. More interesting is that diversity climate at the school level buffered the association between ethnic/racial victimization and academic functioning. The effects were further qualified by school level ethnic/racial diversity and victimization.
Discussion: The current findings illustrate the pernicious effects of ethnic/racial victimization even after controlling for other forms of victimization. Moreover, differences in these associations across schools were accounted for using a combination of school level racial diversity and victimization with school level diversity climate emerging as a buffer of the effects of ethnic/racial victimization.
Recommended Citation
da Cunha, Josafa M. and Santo, Jonathan, "School (socie)ties: individual and school level differences in the association between ethnic/racial victimization and academic functioning" (2023). Psychology Faculty Publications. 347.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/psychfacpub/347
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This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1000328