Racially and Ethnically Diverse Schools and Adolescent Romantic Relationships

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ID2224241
AuthorsKate Strully, Kate W Strully (0000-0002-8497-7462, University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume120
Issue3
Pages750-797
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/679190
PMID25848670
OpenAlexW2037344722
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited31

Focusing on romantic relationships, which are often seen as a barometer of social distance, this analysis investigates how adolescents from different racial-ethnic and gender groups respond when they attend diverse schools with many opportunities for inter-racial-ethnic dating. Which groups respond by forming inter-racial-ethnic relationships, and which groups appear to "work around" opportunities for inter-racial-ethnic dating by forming more same-race-ethnicity relationships outside of school boundaries? Most prior studies have analyzed only relationships within schools and, therefore, cannot capture a potentially important way that adolescents express preferences for same-race-ethnicity relationships or work around constraints from other groups' preferences. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I find that, when adolescents are in schools with many opportunities for inter-racial-ethnic dating, black females and white males are most likely to form same-race-ethnicity relationships outside of the school; whereas Hispanic males and females are most likely to date across racial-ethnic boundaries within the school

Adolescent health · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Ethnically diverse · Race (biology) · Romance · Sociology · White (mutation) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology

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