Exploring social and psycho-social factors that might help explain the Afro-Caribbean boy underachievement in England

For over four decades, it has been documented that Afro-Caribbean boys in England underachieve compared to their female counterparts. Caribbean literature has pointed to social and psycho-social factors that might be important in explaining some of this difference. To examine the extent to which these factors are important even throughout the Caribbean diaspora, this quantitative study explored the role these social and psychosocial factors played in explaining the achievement gap between Afro-Caribbean boys and girls residing in England. Findings demonstrated that only a few of these factors identified in Caribbean literature were important for attenuating the gap.