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What Buffers Ethnic Homophily? Explaining the Development of Outgroup Contact in Adolescence
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Wölfer, Ralf; Hewstone, Miles – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Although literature provides strong evidence for the beneficial role of outgroup contact, longitudinal knowledge regarding the formation and change of outgroup contact remains improvable. Using a longitudinal, large-scale data set including 6,726 majority and minority participants (M[subscript age] = 14.98 years at Wave 1; 55% female) from 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
Gender Norms and STEM: The Importance of Friends for Stopping Leakage from the STEM Pipeline
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van der Vleuten, Maaike; Steinmetz, Stephanie; van de Werfhorst, Herman – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2018
More women are now entering male-dominated fields, yet, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) remain dominated by men. We examined the association between boys' and girls' STEM choices after secondary education and friends' gender norms, and whether pressure to conform to traditional gender norms differs depending on the gender…
Descriptors: Females, Social Influences, Gender Differences, STEM Education
Ethnic Composition of School Classes, Majority-Minority Friendships, and Adolescents' Intergroup Attitudes in the Netherlands
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Vervoort, Miranda H. M.; Scholte, Ron H. J.; Scheepers, Peer L. H. – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
The relationships between the proportion of ethnic minority adolescents in school classes, the proportion and quality of majority-minority friendships and intergroup attitudes were examined using multi-level analysis (N = 2386 adolescents in 117 school classes in the Netherlands). In school classes with high proportions of ethnic minority…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Racial Composition
Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Classroom Attitudes and Behavior in Relation to Bullying in Early Adolescence
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Scholte, Ron; Sentse, Miranda; Granic, Isabela – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
The aim of the present study was to examine to what extent classroom factors (i.e., classroom antibullying attitudes and behavioral norms) contributed to individual bullying, after controlling for individual difference characteristics. Participants were 2,547 early adolescents (M = 13.4 years, SD = 0.63) from 109 middle school classes. Self- and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Bullying, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students