Loss of Institutional Trust Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents: A Consequence of Procedural Injustice and a Cause of Life‐Span Outcomes. Issue 2 (8th February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yeager, David S.; Purdie‐Vaughns, Valerie; Hooper, Sophia Yang; Cohen, Geoffrey L.
• Is Part Of: Child development. Volume 88:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 658
• Page End: 676
• Publication Date: 2017-02-08
• Subjects: Child development -- Periodicals; Child psychology -- Periodicals; Child Development -- Periodicals; Child Development; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; Pedicatrics; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12697
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-3920

Abstract

Abstract : This research tested a social‐developmental process model of trust discernment. From sixth to eighth grade, White and African American students were surveyed twice yearly (ages 11–14; Study 1, N = 277). African American students were more aware of racial bias in school disciplinary decisions, and as this awareness grew it predicted a loss of trust in school, leading to a large trust gap in seventh grade. Loss of trust by spring of seventh grade predicted African Americans' subsequent discipline infractions and 4‐year college enrollment. Causality was confirmed with a trust‐restoring "wise feedback" treatment delivered in spring of seventh grade that improved African Americans' eighth‐grade discipline and college outcomes. Correlational findings were replicated with Latino and White students (ages 11–14; Study 2, N = 206).