TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlates of Perceived School Safety Among Black Adolescents in Chicago
T2 - Are There Sexual Orientation Differences?
AU - Hong, Jun Sung
AU - Lee, Jeoung Min
AU - Rivas-Koehl, Matthew M.
AU - Butler-Barnes, Sheretta
AU - de Lara, Ellen W.
AU - Voisin, Dexter R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Center for Health Administration Studies and the STI/HIV Intervention Network at the University of Chicago, which were awarded to Dr. Dexter R. Voisin. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Chicago, Dr. Voisin’s previous institution. Dr. Voisin collected the data for the study, and all the authors take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. There were no ethical issues concerning human participants/animals in the study. Informed consent was obtained before the data collection. The data in this study are available upon request to Dr. Voisin. The data are not publicly available due to privacy and confidentiality reasons.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - The current study aims to explore whether the protective factors identified in the research literature for Black sexual minority adolescents in urban neighborhoods are similar to those of their heterosexual peers. Participants for the study consisted of 638 Black adolescents, aged 12 to 22 years, who resided in four neighborhoods in Chicago’s Southside. Findings indicated that for sexual minority adolescents, government assistance was negatively correlated with perceived school safety while having caring teachers was positively associated with perceived school safety. For heterosexual adolescents, caring parents, a lower level of peer victimization, caring teachers, and bonding to school were positively associated with perceived school safety. However, perceived connectedness to the neighborhood was negatively related to perceived school safety. Except for caring teachers, protective factors were not significantly associated with perceived school safety among sexual minority adolescents as they were for heterosexual adolescents. Overall, findings from the study demonstrate that although identifying protective factors is critical; for Black sexual minority youth, it is especially important to consider macrosystem-level factors that would impede feeling safe in school, such as the presence of racism and homophobia in the school environment.
AB - The current study aims to explore whether the protective factors identified in the research literature for Black sexual minority adolescents in urban neighborhoods are similar to those of their heterosexual peers. Participants for the study consisted of 638 Black adolescents, aged 12 to 22 years, who resided in four neighborhoods in Chicago’s Southside. Findings indicated that for sexual minority adolescents, government assistance was negatively correlated with perceived school safety while having caring teachers was positively associated with perceived school safety. For heterosexual adolescents, caring parents, a lower level of peer victimization, caring teachers, and bonding to school were positively associated with perceived school safety. However, perceived connectedness to the neighborhood was negatively related to perceived school safety. Except for caring teachers, protective factors were not significantly associated with perceived school safety among sexual minority adolescents as they were for heterosexual adolescents. Overall, findings from the study demonstrate that although identifying protective factors is critical; for Black sexual minority youth, it is especially important to consider macrosystem-level factors that would impede feeling safe in school, such as the presence of racism and homophobia in the school environment.
KW - Protective factors
KW - School safety
KW - Sexual minorities
KW - Social-ecological framework
KW - Urban
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85141075429&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10615-022-00854-y
DO - 10.1007/s10615-022-00854-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141075429
SN - 0091-1674
VL - 51
SP - 86
EP - 99
JO - Clinical Social Work Journal
JF - Clinical Social Work Journal
IS - 1
ER -