Overcoming socioeconomic adversity: Academic resilience in mathematics achievement among children and adolescents in Ireland

Author:

Sheehan Jillian1,Hadfield Kristin12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Psychology Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland

2. Trinity Centre for Global Health Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland

Abstract

AbstractAlthough socioeconomic disadvantage is linked with academic underachievement, many children from low‐income backgrounds perform well in school. Which modifiable factors predict this academic resilience? We examine between‐ and within‐person predictors of one important academic metric – mathematics performance – across adolescence in 1715 (796 male, 919 female) youth living in poverty in Ireland, using data from three waves (9, 13, and 17/18 years) of the Growing Up in Ireland study. Using linear mixed models, math performance was worse when adolescents had more socioemotional and behavioural difficulties, more child–parent relationship conflict, parents had lower expectations of the adolescent's educational achievement, and when primary caregivers had less education. Adolescents who had better intellectual self‐concept and attended a non‐disadvantaged school had greater math performance. This research adds to the growing body of work suggesting academic resilience is dynamic and multisystemic; it provides potential targets at multiple levels to promote such resilience.

Publisher

Wiley

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