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Vicarious Severe School Discipline Predicts Racial Disparities among Non-Disciplined Black and White American Adolescents
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Del Toro, Juan; Wang, Ming-Te – Child Development, 2023
Racial disparities in school discipline may have collateral consequences on the larger non-suspended student population. The present study leveraged two longitudinal datasets with 1201 non-suspended adolescents (48% Black, 52% White; 55% females, 45% males; M[subscript age]: 12-13) enrolled in 84 classrooms in an urban mid-Atlantic city of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Urban Schools, Discipline, African American Students
Trust and Discipline: Adolescents' Institutional and Teacher Trust Predict Classroom Behavioral Engagement Following Teacher Discipline
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Amemiya, Jamie; Fine, Adam; Wang, Ming-Te – Child Development, 2020
This daily diary study examined how adolescents' institutional and teacher-specific trust predicted classroom behavioral engagement the day after being disciplined by that teacher. Within mathematics classrooms, adolescents (N = 190; M[subscript age] = 14 years) reported institutional and teacher-specific trust and then completed a 15-day diary…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Discipline, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Environment
The Trajectories of Adolescents' Perceptions of School Climate, Deviant Peer Affiliation, and Behavioral Problems during the Middle School Years
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Wang, Ming-Te; Dishion, Thomas J. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
This longitudinal study examined trajectories of change in adolescents' perceptions of four dimensions of school climate (academic support, behavior management, teacher social support, and peer social support) and the effects of such trajectories on adolescent problem behaviors. We also tested whether school climate moderated the associations…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Educational Environment, Longitudinal Studies
A Tobit Regression Analysis of the Covariation between Middle School Students' Perceived School Climate and Behavioral Problems
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Wang, Ming-Te; Selman, Robert L.; Dishion, Thomas J.; Stormshak, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
This study uses an ecological framework to examine how adolescents' perceptions of school climate in 6th grade covary with the probability and frequency of their engagement in problem behaviors in 7th and 8th grades. Tobit analysis was used to address the issue of having a highly skewed outcome variable with many zeros and yet account for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Discipline, Regression (Statistics), Probability