Neighborhoods, Schools, and Adolescent Violence: Ecological Relative Deprivation, Disadvantage Saturation, or Cumulative Disadvantage?

Pinchak, Nicolo P.; Swisher, Raymond R.

doi:10.1007/s10964-021-01551-8

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“…Sometimes different risk factors do not act independently. More often, multiple risk factors at the same time [ 33 , 34 ]. Our results demonstrated that cumulative SERFs were positively correlated with clustering of HRBs and HRB cooccurrence, consistent with ecological system theory.…”

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Relationship between chronotype and mental behavioural health among adolescents: a cross-sectional study based on the social ecological system

Zhang

Jin

et al. 2023

BMC Psychiatry

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Background Health risk behaviors (HRBs) is a kind of phenomenon behavior that often occurs in adolescence, and also often appears in clusters. Previous studies suggested an association between social ecological risk factors (SERFs) and HRBs. This study explored 1) whether chronotype moderates the risk of HRBs associated with SERFs and 2) whether mental health is a mediator in this relationship. Methods Adolescents were recruited from 39 junior or senior schools (three cities, 13 schools per city) using a multistage cluster sampling method conducted between October, 2020 and June, 2021. The Social Ecological System, Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire, Brief Instrument on Psychological Health Youths, and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance questionnaires were used to measure the SERFs, chronotype, mental health and HRBs. Latent category analysis was used to explore the clustering mode of HRBs. The primary exposure was SERFs, and the primary outcome was HRBs; chronotype was a moderator, and mental health was a mediator. The multivariable logistic regression model was used to determine the relationship between SERFs and chronotype and mental behavioral health status. Mediation moderate analysis using the PROCESS method was used to explore the relationship between these variables. Sensitivity analysis was conducted to evaluate the robustness of the model. Results In total, 17,800 individuals were initially enrolled. After excluding 947 individuals with invalid questionnaires, 16,853 participants were finally included in the analysis. The mean age of participants was 15.33 ± 1.08 years. After adjusting for covariates, multivariable logistic regression found that high levels of SERFs (odds ratio [OR] = 10.10, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 8.88–11.43, P < 0.01), intermediate chronotype (OR = 5.24, 95% CI: 4.57–6.01, P < 0.01), and eveningness (OR = 1.83, 95% CI: 1.64–2.05, P < 0.01) were associated with higher HRBs frequency. This study also assessed the interaction between chronotype, SERFs and HRBs (OR = 27.84, 95% CI: 22.03–35.19, P < 0.01) and mental health (OR = 18.46, 95% CI: 13.16–25.88, P < 0.01). The moderated mediation analyses examined the relationship between chronotype, SERFs, mental health and HRBs. Conclusions SERFs may be important variables in measuring the effect of the adolescent psychosocial environment on HRBs; this effect is mediated by mental health and moderated by chronotype.

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Relationship between chronotype and mental behavioural health among adolescents: a cross-sectional study based on the social ecological system

Zhang

Jin

et al. 2023

BMC Psychiatry

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“…Findings from studies carried out earlier also point to the exacerbation of numerous issues among adolescents living in more deprived areas with low social capital [41]. Outcomes include worse school performance, more frequent participation in risk and anti-social behaviours, and contact with violence, as well as mental health issues [42][43][44][45]. An unfavourable economic situation in the family and the local area may be the cause of psychological stress which, in turn, leads to depression [46,47].…”

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Quality of life in 13-year-olds depending on health status, residential neighbourhood deprivation and social capital – results from the Polish HBSC Study 2010–2018

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Kleszczewska²,

Porwit³

et al. 2023

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Introduction and Objective.Health-related quality of life (HRQL) should be used more extensively in monitoring the health of school-aged children. The presented study aimed to evaluate trends in KIDSCREEN-10 indices, considering mean scores and the level of social inequalities. Materials and method. 3,937 children aged 13 participated in three Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC) crosssectional surveys conducted in Poland between 2010-2018. Subgroups were distinguished according to gender, health status, and three social factors (family affluence, neighbourhood social capital, and local deprivation).

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“…School socioeconomic disadvantage is an index combining the school-level proportion of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (FRPL), the proportion of students whose parents reported receiving "public assistance, such as welfare," and the proportion of students whose parents have not completed a high school education (Pinchak & Swisher, 2022). These items were z-score standardized and averaged across schools with at least one non-missing indicator (alpha among schools = 0.88), and the final measure is z-score standardized.…”

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A Paradox of School Social Organization: Positive School Climate, Friendship Network Density, and Adolescent Violence

Pinchak

2024

J. Youth Adolescence

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Schools are often encouraged to foster a positive climate to reduce adolescent violence, but evidence on the effectiveness of this approach varies significantly. This study investigates the roots of this variation by testing alternative hypotheses about how positive school-level climate and school-level student friendship network density interact to shape adolescent violence perpetration. Research on informal social control and network closure suggests that the violence-reducing association of positive school climate will be enhanced among schools where students are more densely tied through their friendships. Research on youth conflict and subversion of control suggests the opposite. These hypotheses are tested with data from Waves I-II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 11,771; 49% Female; Age mean = 15.04, SD = 1.60). Consistent with the conflict/subversion hypothesis, analyses indicate that the inverse association between positive school climate and adolescent violence is only evident among schools with a very low density of friendship ties. Strikingly, however, there is evidence that a more positive school climate is associated with increases in violence among youth attending schools with a high density of friendship ties. These findings suggest that efforts to reduce violence by fostering cohesion among youth in their schools and other social contexts can be undermined by youth network processes.

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Neighborhoods, Schools, and Adolescent Violence: Ecological Relative Deprivation, Disadvantage Saturation, or Cumulative Disadvantage?

Cited by 14 publications

References 83 publications

Relationship between chronotype and mental behavioural health among adolescents: a cross-sectional study based on the social ecological system

Relationship between chronotype and mental behavioural health among adolescents: a cross-sectional study based on the social ecological system

Quality of life in 13-year-olds depending on health status, residential neighbourhood deprivation and social capital – results from the Polish HBSC Study 2010–2018

A Paradox of School Social Organization: Positive School Climate, Friendship Network Density, and Adolescent Violence

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