PO042: Building Belonging: The Power of Social Support and Intergroup Interactions

  • PMD: 5,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand mediating role of racial-ethnic intergroup interactions in the association between teacher and classmate social support and students' school belonging;
  2. explore moderating effect of race-ethnicity on the mediations between social support and school belonging; and
  3. discuss implications for research and practice regarding fostering an inclusive school environment.

Description

Learn how racial-ethnic intergroup interactions act as a mediator between social support and school belonging, and how these mediations are moderated by ethnicity/race.

Presenter(s)

Megan L. Gilbertson, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

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