Grace Warner-Haakmat
Live Poster Session: Zoom Link
Abstract: This study will explore the effects of a student’s mental health on their grades, and whether or not race impacts those results. It will attempt to answer the question “Is a student’s level of feeling depressed correlated with their performance in school, and how does race affect this relationship?” This study uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Wave 1) which focuses on the health and well being of 20,000 adolescents between the ages 13 to 18, in grades 7 through 12. Previous literature suggests that, due to the underfunding of majority Black schools, Black children’s performance in schools is on average poor in relation to their white peers. This research on school performance also shows that it can be correlated with an adolescent’s mental health, either that their mental health affects their performance or that their performance affects their mental health.
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