The Impact of Teacher Nonverbal Behaviors on Children's Intergroup Attitudes and Mental Health
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Brief summary
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Researchers in education have found that teachers often differ in their nonverbal behaviors toward children from different social groups and these behaviors correlate with achievement gaps and academic stereotypes about the groups. Early elementary school, when achievement gaps first emerge, is also the time when White, majority children begin to show group-level biases, and when racial minority children are able to detect discrimination and experience anxiety related to their membership in a particular social group. Therefore, if children are sensitive to teacher nonverbal behaviors, these behaviors could contribute to majority children's group biases, and may impact minority children's awareness of being in a negatively stereotyped group. In fact, children are adept at perceiving adult nonverbal behaviors and using these behaviors to guide their own behaviors and to make judgments about others. The primary goal of this research is to examine the effect of biased nonverbal teacher behaviors on group biases for children from positively stereotyped groups, and on affect and anxiety for children from negatively stereotyped groups. The investigators hypothesize that group biases in teacher behaviors will influence children's attitudes about groups, and will result in negative affect and anxiety for students in groups targeted by negative nonverbal teacher behaviors.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03584230
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 96 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Assigned to positive group Behavioral
- Assigned to negative group Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 54 Months to 102 Months
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 30, 2017
- Primary completion
- Aug 25, 2017
- Completion
- Aug 25, 2017
- Last update posted
- Jul 11, 2018
2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu | Hawaii | 96822 | — |
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