Exclusionary School Discipline Policies and Mental Health in a National Sample of Adolescents without Histories of Suspension or Expulsion

We apply the theory of collateral consequences and a social stress process framework to school discipline to examine whether exclusionary school discipline policies are associated with the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents who have never been suspended or expelled and whether this associati...

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Published in:Youth & society 2022-01, Vol.54 (1), p.84-103
Main Authors: Eyllon, Mara, Salhi, Carmel, Griffith, John L., Lincoln, Alisa K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Connectedness
Depression (Psychology)
Discipline
Discipline Policy
Ethnicity
Expulsion
Linear analysis
Mental depression
Mental Health
Policy making
Race
Racial Differences
School discipline
School Policy
Social stress
Stress Variables
Student Behavior
Suspension
Symptoms
Teenagers
Violence
Well Being
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Summary:We apply the theory of collateral consequences and a social stress process framework to school discipline to examine whether exclusionary school discipline policies are associated with the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents who have never been suspended or expelled and whether this association varies across race/ethnicity. Data are from 8,878 adolescents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Hierarchical linear models examined associations between discipline policies and adolescent depressive symptoms and school-connectedness, and modification by race/ethnicity. Schools had high levels of exclusionary discipline for both violent and non-violent infractions. More exclusionary policies were associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms (b = 1.03, 95% CI: 0.15, 1.91, p 
ISSN:0044-118X
1552-8499
DOI:10.1177/0044118X20959591