Cluster Profiles of Youths Living in Urban Poverty: Factors Affecting Risk and Resilience

Autor/in	Anthony, Elizabeth K.
Titel	Cluster Profiles of Youths Living in Urban Poverty: Factors Affecting Risk and Resilience
Quelle	In: Social Work Research, 32 (2008) 1, S.6-17 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1070-5309
Schlagwörter	Individual Characteristics; Personality Traits; Poverty; Housing; Profiles; Urban Areas; Public Housing; Adolescents; Risk; Outcomes of Education; Multivariate Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Individual characteristics; Armut; Unterkunft; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Urban area; Stadtregion; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Risiko; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Multivariate Analyse
Abstract	This study examined risk and protective factors among a sample of 157 youths between grades and 8 who resided in three urban public housing developments. The relationship between identified patterns of risk and protection and educational and behavioral outcomes was assessed. Indicators of risk and protection were based on an ecological and multisystems perspective and included measures of individual characteristics, interpersonal and social traits, family conditions, microsystem transactions, and neighborhood influences. K-means clustering techniques revealed four cluster profiles characterized by unique patterns of risk and protection. Results suggest that important differences exist in patterns of risk and protection among young people who live in poverty and that these differences are evident in educational and behavioral outcomes. Findings also point to characteristics that appear to sustain resilient development in the presence of multilayered risk. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10