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The Impact of Teacher Nonverbal Behaviors on Children's Intergroup Attitudes and Mental Health

NCT03584230 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2018-07-12

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Stress, Psychological
  • Stress, Emotional

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Assigned to positive group

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BEHAVIORAL

Assigned to negative group

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Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Hawaii

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kristin Pauker, PhD · University of Hawaii at Manoa

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
54 Months
Max Age
102 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-08-26
Completion
2017-08-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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