ERIC Number: EJ1274622
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
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Gender Discrimination, Perceived School Unfairness, Depressive Symptoms, and Sleep Duration among Middle School Girls
Child Development, v91 n6 p1865-1876 Nov-Dec 2020
The current study examines how gender discrimination by adults in school is linked with depressive symptoms and sleep duration over time in middle school. The main goal is to test one psychological mechanism that can account for such associations: perceived school unfairness. Relying on a racially-ethnically diverse sample of girls (N = 2,718, M[subscript age] = 13.01, SD[subscript age] = 0.39) from 26 middle schools, multilevel mediation analyses revealed that girls who experienced school-based gender discrimination by an adult in seventh grade reported higher levels of perceived school unfairness in eighth grade. Moreover, perceived unfairness, in turn, was associated with more depressive symptoms and shorter sleep durations by eighth grade. Implications of changes in adolescent girls' sleep and mood related to their experiences of gender discrimination are discussed.
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, School Culture, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Sleep, Middle School Students, Females
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (DHHS); National Science Foundation (NSF); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1R01HD05988201A2; 0921306; 5R01HD05988210