Parents' Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Children's Internalizing Symptoms: Race and Socioeconomic Status Differences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, due to residential segregation, racial minorities and families with low socioeconomic status (SES) tend to live in less safe neighborhoods than their White and high SES counterparts. As such, in the US, race and SES closely correlate with neighborhood safety. Due to the high chronicity of stress in unsafe neighborhoods, perceived neighborhood safety may be a mechanism through which race and SES are linked to children's mental health. Simultaneously, race and SES may alter the effects of perceived neighborhood safety on children's mental health.

Aim

To explore racial and SES differences in the effects of neighborhood safety on children's internalizing symptoms, we compared racially and SES diverse groups of American children for the effects of

SUBMITTER: Assari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8478356 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature