title: Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Adolescent School Functioning.
abstract: This study examined the association between adolescents' perceptions of their neighborhoods' safety and multiple elements of their functioning in school with data on 15 year olds from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n= 924). In general, perceived neighborhood safety was more strongly associated with aspects of schooling that were more psychosocial in nature (e.g., school attachment) than those that were more cognitive (e.g., test scores). Examination of neighborhood and family moderators of these associations revealed that perceived neighborhood safety was negatively associated with grades for youth from low-income families but was positively associated with school attachment for youth from such families when they lived in neighborhoods rated by observers as high in physical disorder.
authors.affiliation: Département de Psychoéducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Pavillon A7, 2500 boul. de L`université, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, J1K 2R1 alexa.martin@usherbrooke.ca.
authors.forename: Alexa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin-Storey
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 305 E. 23rd Street, G1800, Austin, TX 78712-1699, crosnoe@prc.utexas.edu.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Crosnoe