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- Title
Poverty, Neighborhood Danger, Social Support, and the Individual Adaptation Among At-Risk Youth in Urban Areas.
- Authors
Bowen, Gary L.; Chapman, Mimi V.
- Abstract
This article examines the relative contribution of measures of objective and subjective neighborhood danger and measures of social support from neighbors, teachers, parents and friends on the individual adaptation of at-risk youth in two urban areas in the southeastern U.S.: Charlotte, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. The aim of the investigation is to suggest strategies for intervention that may be most effective in promoting the adaptation of at-risk students. Data for this analysis were collected in October 1995 from 525 students across 17 middle and high schools. Ranging in age from 10 to 20 years old, the students were all participants in the Communities In Schools (CIS) program. All student participants in CIS have been identified by a school official or human service professional in the community as at risk of school failure. Ten measures were used to examine the relationship between the criterion outcome, of which 3 measures were of individual adaptation, and two sets of independent variables: neighborhood danger and social support. Statistically significant between-group differences emerged when the measures of neighborhood danger were analyzed by the receipt of free or reduced-price lunch-the proxy measure of socioeconomic status for students. On the other hand, the standard deviations on both measures are significant relative to mean values, suggesting a high level of variation in students' experiences in and perceptions of safety in their neighborhoods.
- Subjects
UNITED States; STUDENTS; SOCIAL conditions of students; NEIGHBORHOODS; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); SCHOOL failure; SOCIAL support; ANALYSIS of variance
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 1996, Vol 17, Issue 5, p641
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019251396017005004