Practising homelessness: a typology approach to young people's daily routines.
In a study exploring the relationship between typology and risk, we investigated the daily routines of a heterogeneous sample of young men and women from two sites who had been homeless for varying periods (N = 1289). Cluster analysis yielded four groups-'Partnered', 'Socially engaged', 'Service connected-harm avoidant', and 'Transgressive'-based on where and with whom they congregated and slept during the day and night and how they spent most of their time. Although the patterns of responses differed between the groups, there was overlap in the extent of engagement in specific activities, including risk practices. Interpretation of the impact of homeless young people's engagement in risk practices needs to take account of the interaction between their harmful and non-harmful practices.
Mallett
Shelley
S
Research Fellow, Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. smallet@unimelb.edu.au
Rosenthal
Doreen
D
Myers
Paul
P
Milburn
Norweeta
N
Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane
MJ
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001315:Australia; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups; D012309:Risk-Taking; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment; D014481:United States