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Schools can be supporting environments in disadvantaged neighborhoods
Uppsala University, Sweden.
University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, Division of Psychology, Pedagogy and Sociology. Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. (BUV)
National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine.
2019 (English)In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, ISSN 0165-0254, E-ISSN 1464-0651, Vol. 43, no 5, p. 383-392Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In Sweden, as in many other European countries, poor neighborhoods with ethnically diverse inhabitants and high crime rates have grown up around big cities in the last decades. We hypothesized that, compared with adolescents in advantaged neighborhoods, adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods would perceive their schools as relatively safe, due to their contrast with the more threatening and dangerous neighborhoods they lived in. Also, they would perceive their schools as relatively more open to their influence, due to the contrast with a lack of influence in their families. More broadly, they would experience their schools as supporting environments to a greater extent than adolescents in advantaged neighborhoods. We tested these ideas using a sample of 1390 adolescents (M age = 14.34, SD = 1.01) in a Swedish city. The hypotheses were supported, and the findings were most salient for immigrant adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Thus, particularly for immigrant adolescents in disadvantaged neighborhoods, schools can be supporting environments, which should have implications for local policies regarding resource allocation to schools and student influence. Overall, schools seem to be able to play an important role in students€™ lives by functioning as a positive contrast to negative out-of-school experiences in disadvantaged neighborhoods. © The Author(s) 2019.

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2019. Vol. 43, no 5, p. 383-392
Keywords [en]
adolescent; article; child parent relation; delinquency; female; human; immigrant; major clinical study; male; neighborhood; resource allocation; student
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International Migration and Ethnic Relations Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
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SOCIAL SCIENCE, Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-13852DOI: 10.1177/0165025419833824ISI: 000477644600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85063315976OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-13852DiVA, id: diva2:1317856
Available from: 2019-05-24 Created: 2019-05-24 Last updated: 2020-02-03Bibliographically approved

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