Relations between Housing Characteristics and the Well-Being of Low-Income Children and Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Coley, Rebekah Levine; Leventhal, Tama; Lynch, Alicia Doyle; Kull, Melissa
Titel	Relations between Housing Characteristics and the Well-Being of Low-Income Children and Adolescents
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 49 (2013) 9, S.1775-1789 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0031033
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Housing; Well Being; Low Income Groups; Children; Adolescents; Urban Areas; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Child Development; Adolescent Development; Emotional Development; Child Behavior; Cognitive Ability; Mothers; Psychological Patterns; Mental Health; Costs; Predictor Variables; Context Effect; Age Differences; Longitudinal Studies; Interviews; Individual Characteristics; Family Characteristics; Statistical Analysis; Illinois; Massachusetts; Texas; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment; Brief Symptom Inventory; Child Behavior Checklist; Woodcock Johnson Psycho Educational Battery + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Unterkunft; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Urban area; Stadtregion; Kindesentwicklung; Gefühlsbildung; Denkfähigkeit; Mother; Mutter; Psychohygiene; Cost; Kosten; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Statistische Analyse; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Extant research has highlighted the importance of multiple characteristics of housing but has not comprehensively assessed a broad range of housing characteristics and their relative contributions to children's well-being. Using a representative, longitudinal sample of low-income children and adolescents from low-income urban neighborhoods (N = 2,437, ages 2-21 years) from the "Three-City Study", this study assessed housing quality, stability, type (i.e., ownership status and subsidy status), and cost simultaneously to delineate their unique associations with children's development. Hierarchical linear models found that poor housing quality was most consistently associated with children's and adolescents' development, including worse emotional and behavioral functioning and lower cognitive skills. These associations operated in part through mothers' psychological functioning. Residential instability showed mixed links with functioning, whereas housing cost and type were not consistently predictive. Results suggest that housing contexts are associated with functioning across the developmental span from early childhood through late adolescence, with some differences in patterns by child age. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01