A Growth Curve Analysis of Housing Quality among Transition-Aged Foster Youth

Autor/inn/en	Tyrell, Fanita A.; Yates, Tuppett M.
Titel	A Growth Curve Analysis of Housing Quality among Transition-Aged Foster Youth
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Care Forum, 46 (2017) 1, S.91-117 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1053-1890
DOI	10.1007/s10566-016-9370-1
Schlagwörter	Housing; Foster Care; Individual Characteristics; Child Abuse; Placement; Longitudinal Studies; Parents; High School Graduates; Family Violence; Age Differences; Family Environment; Child Safety; Child Welfare; At Risk Persons; Adolescents; Young Adults; Adjustment (to Environment) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterkunft; Pflegehilfe; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Eltern; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Familienmilieu; Kindeswohl; Risikogruppe; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	Background: Procuring safe housing is a salient developmental task during emerging adulthood, one that is especially challenging for emancipated foster youth. Yet, little is known about factors that influence foster youths' housing experiences. Objective: This investigation documented changes in foster youth's housing quality during the first 24 months following their emancipation. Analyses also evaluated associations between changes in housing quality and youth's sociodemographic characteristics, childhood maltreatment experiences, and out-of-home placement history. Method: Recently emancipated foster youth (N = 172; 66 % female; M[subscript age] = 19.63 years, 84.3 % non-White) who were participating in an ongoing longitudinal study of "Adapting to Aging Out" provided sociodemographic information, a history of their childhood maltreatment and out-of-home placement experiences, and a month-by-month summary of their housing since emancipation. Results: Parenting youth and youth with a high school degree had higher housing quality 6 months post-emancipation. Females and youth who emancipated at older ages showed a linear increase in housing quality at 6 months post-emancipation. Childhood exposure to domestic violence, older age of entry into foster care, and placement with a relative just prior to emancipation were associated with declining housing quality over time. Conclusions: These findings highlight the need to provide safe and stable housing opportunities for transition-aged foster youth, and elucidate risk and protective factors to guide applied efforts to support particularly vulnerable foster youth, including those who are male, have lower education attainment, have a history of childhood domestic violence exposure, entered foster care at older ages, and/or resided with a relative at the time of their emancipation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01