APS

2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026

Social Class Discrimination and School Belonging Among Adolescents

Barcelona, Spain · May 2026

Posters · Identity, Culture & Social Inequality

  • Zena Mello
    San Francisco State University
  • Dania Smith
    San Francisco State University
  • Bingyue Tan
    San Francisco State University

Abstract

We examined social class discrimination as a new way of understanding the association between social class and school belonging among adolescents. Results indicated that social class discrimination was inversely associated with school belonging and that teachers and classmates were particularly important sources of social class discrimination.

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