“…This finding is consistent with previous work identifying neighborhood safety and low socioeconomic status (SES) as risk factors for higher levels of psychopathology, including anxiety (Essex et al, 2006; Grant et al, 2003; Johnson et al, 1999; Simning, van Wijngaarden, & Conwell, 2012; Slopen, Fitzmaurice, Williams, & Gilman, 2012). These findings may be best explained by research finding that low self-efficacy indirectly links neighborhood safety and internalizing problems among youth (Dupéré, Leventhal, & Vitaro, 2012). Although excessive autonomy restriction by parents may facilitate decreased self-efficacy when faced with anxiety provoking situations, for children living in unsafe neighborhoods, the daily threat they experience and lack of control over their environment may be a more salient predictor of their anxiety than their parent’s behavior.…”