1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«This study aims to address an important gap in research on disadvantaged youth’s feelings of safety at school—herein feelings of safety—by simultaneously testing the hypotheses that the experience of poverty is associated with feeling less safe, and that residential-neighborhood features partly mediate the relationship between poverty and feeling less safe.» (p. 1196)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«This study draws on the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development (QLSCD), a prospective cohort study designed to improve knowledge about the psychosocial development of children.» (p. 1196)

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«The findings suggest that youth who have experienced chronic and later-childhood poverty are particularly likely to live in neighborhoods with more ’unfavorable’ social and physical features (e.g., more lone-parent and low-income households, lower levels of greenery, less residential density), and neighborhoods that parents perceive as being more disorderly (e.g., demarked by the presence of garbage, groups causing trouble). In turn, greater parent-perceived neighborhood disorder was directly associated with decreased feelings of safety at school. Previous research demonstrated a relationship between parent-perceived neighborhood disorder and detrimental outcomes in youth (e.g., indicators of greater stress) (Theall et al. 2013). The present study extends these findings by showing that parent-perceived disorder is also detrimental for youth’s feelings of safety at school.» (p. 1200)