Is More Necessarily Better? School Security and Perceptions of Safety among Students and Parents in the United States

Mowen, Thomas J.; Freng, Adrienne

doi:10.1007/s12103-018-9461-7

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“…There were 18 studies that compared perceived school safety separately among sexes. Six studies found that boys were more likely to perceive their schools unsafe than girls [ 31 , 34 , 38 , 45 , 46 , 47 ], and five studies found that girls reported lower perceptions of school safety than boys [ 39 , 42 , 48 , 49 , 50 ]. Sexual minority youths were less likely to feel safe at school than non-sexual minority youths [ 22 , 33 , 34 , 51 ].…”

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Feeling Unsafe at School and Associated Mental Health Difficulties among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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This study systematically reviewed the literature on perceived school safety. We investigated the prevalence, factors and associated mental health difficulties, as well as cross-cultural findings. Five databases were searched up to 9 February 2021 for peer-reviewed papers published in English. We included quantitative studies that explored the perception of school safety among children and adolescents. The reference lists of the selected papers were also searched. We conducted a narrative synthesis of the included studies. The review included 43 papers. The mean prevalence of the students who felt unsafe at school was 19.4% and ranged from 6.1% to 69.1%. Their perceived safety was associated with a wide range of personal, school, and social factors. Not feeling safe at school was related to being victimized and mental health difficulties, including depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior. Higher perceived school safety was associated with measures such as the presence of a security officer and fair school rule enforcement. The results showed the lack of cross-cultural studies on perceived school safety. Empirical studies are needed that examine the mechanisms of school safety, using valid measures. A clear definition of school safety should be considered a key aspect of future studies.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Feeling Unsafe at School and Associated Mental Health Difficulties among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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“…How do increasing concerns about school safety and security affect parents? For example, research has shown that the use of security measures (e.g., metal detectors) within schools to improve student safety make parents more wary of potential threats to children's safety at school (Mowen & Freng, ). How do differential disciplinary and surveillance practices at school by SES and race/ethnicity (Welch & Payne, ) affect parenting strains and well‐being differently?…”

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confidence: 99%

Parenthood and Well‐Being: A Decade in Review

Nomaguchi

Milkie

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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Understanding social aspects of parental well‐being is vital because parents' welfare has implications not only for the parents themselves but also for child development, fertility, and the overall health of a society. This article provides a critical review of scholarship on parenthood and well‐being in advanced economies published from 2010 to 2019. It focuses on the role of social, economic, cultural, and institutional contexts of parenting in influencing adult well‐being. The authors identify major themes, achievements, and challenges and organize the review around the demands‐rewards perspective and two other theoretical frameworks: the stress process model and the life course perspective. The analysis shows that rising economic insecurities and inequalities and a diffusion of intensive parenting ideology were major social contexts of parenting in the 2010s. Scholarship linking parenting contexts and parental well‐being illuminated how stressors related to providing and caring for children could unjustly burden some parents, especially mothers, those with fewer socioeconomic resources, and those with marginalized statuses. In that vein, researchers continued to emphasize how stressors diverged by parents' socioeconomic status, gender, and partnership status, with new attention to strains experienced by racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, and sexual minority parents. Scholars' comparisons of parents' positions in various countries expanded, enhancing knowledge regarding specific policy supports that allow parents to thrive. Articulating future research within a stress process model framework, the authors show vibrant theoretical pathways, including conceptualizing potential parental social supports at multiple levels, attending to the intersection of multiple social locations of parents, and renewing attention to local contextual factors and parenting life stages.

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“…Analysis of the article content with the relevant categories "state", "health", and "education" shows that these publications are devoted to political (organizational and administrative), and police measures in the area of public security connected with health protection [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]; food security [26][27][28]; protection from threats and violence in educational sphere [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]; urban security [41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; and protection from crime and terrorism [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. These life spheres and human behavior are evaluated for external risks and physical threats with preventive or reactive impacts on the environment and social relations being the factors and tools of protection from them.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security or Safety: Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Usage in Research Works Published in 2004–2019

Bubnovskaia

Leonidova

Lysova

2019

Behavioral Sciences

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This article is devoted to the statistical analysis of security and safety frequency in the context of categories connected with social institutions and personality features in research works from 2004–2019. Research was based on the following methods: quantitative analysis of safety frequency in the context with coded “categories” related to social institutions and personality features; analysis was conducted with computer-assisted content analysis QDA Miner Lite v. 1.4 and Fisher’s F-test. An analysis of 1157 works showed that the terms “security” and “safety” were quantitatively more frequent when used with concepts related to social institutions than with concepts related to personality features. In our opinion, this qualitative trend shows the prevailing significance of social aspects of security over its personal (psychological) traits for research analysis and practical social aspects. The priority usage of the terms “security” and “safety” can be related to the securitization of society, (i.e., to the increased role and significance of social ways of providing security and protection from threats), primarily with the help of external law-enforcing actors such as the state, police, and army. Securitization counterweights the development of social and psychological mechanisms of security—developing motivation for safe behavior, personal self-regulation, and self-production of security as an internal feeling of protection.

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Is More Necessarily Better? School Security and Perceptions of Safety among Students and Parents in the United States

Cited by 38 publications

References 54 publications

Feeling Unsafe at School and Associated Mental Health Difficulties among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Feeling Unsafe at School and Associated Mental Health Difficulties among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Parenthood and Well‐Being: A Decade in Review

Security or Safety: Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Usage in Research Works Published in 2004–2019

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