title: African American Children At-Risk of Increasingly Conflicted Teacher-Student Relationships in Elementary School.
abstract: Previous studies found different trajectories of conflicted relationships with teachers predictive of academic underachievement. However, little is known about what places children at risk for atypical conflict trajectories. This follow-up study examines whether African American ethnicity, IQ, and SES are unique predictors of teacher-student conflict trajectories taking into account sociobehavioral predictors, including aggression and prosocial behavior. The study included the same ethnically diverse sample of 657 academically at-risk children in which previously four latent growth classes of conflict trajectories (grades 1-5) predictive of underachievement were identified. In this follow-up study, 6 predictors were examined: African American ethnicity, SES, IQ (independent assessment), Inhibitory control (performance measure), and Aggression and Prosocial behavior (peer assessment). The results demonstrated that African American ethnicity, but not IQ and SES, uniquely predicted atypical conflict trajectories, while controlling for sociobehavioral predictors. African American children were at risk of increasingly conflicted relationships with elementary school teachers, which has been found to increase the risk of academic underachievement in middle school.
authors.affiliation: KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jantine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spilt
authors.affiliation: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
authors.forename: Jan N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Hughes
keywords: African American ethnicity; Teacher-student relationships; aggression; inhibitory control; latent growth class conflict trajectories; prosocial behavior
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