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Author: Furtado, Karishma
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Growing Up Too Fast? The Longitudinal Association between Adultification and School Suspension Presented: Atlanta GA, American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Employment, In-School; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parenting Skills/Styles; Racial Differences; School Suspension/Expulsion Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The disproportionate rate at which Black students are suspended relative to their White classmates damages their academic, professional, and health outlooks. Adultification, or the premature assumption of adult responsibilities, may be a source of toxic stress that places students at greater risk of suspension. We used mixed effects Poisson regression on a subsample (N=2000) of the NLSY97 followed across six waves (1997-2002) to estimate the longitudinal effect of adultification on days spent suspended. Adultification was operationalized through the interaction of two variables: job status and parents' parenting style. Students with both a job and uninvolved/permissive parents were considered adultified. Mixed effects Poisson regression suggested that, across time, adultified students are at significantly greater risk for suspension than non- or partially-adultified students (p<0.01). Among 13 year-olds, adultified students spent approximately 10 times as many days suspended as non-adultified students. Though a formal interaction by race was not tested, descriptive analysis using prediction plots stratified by race suggest that the effect of adultification on risk of suspension is considerably larger for Black students than White students. For all students, while the negative impact of adultification persisted across time, it was greatest at younger ages. These results contribute to a growing body of work suggesting that acting out in school may be a manifestation of profound stress elsewhere in students' lives and that removing students from the classroom does little to address the root cause of the problem. Findings add to the call for a more trauma-informed approach to school discipline. |
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Furtado, Karishma. "Growing Up Too Fast? The Longitudinal Association between Adultification and School Suspension." Presented: Atlanta GA, American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 2017. |