Better to Grow Up Poor in a Richer Place? Social Housing, Neighbourhood Comparisons, and English Teenagers’ Well-Being
How does being comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged within their neighbourhood affect the lived experiences of young teenagers? We explore this question on a sample of 13 to 15-year-old teenagers living in social housing in England. We explore three major domains of young teenagers’ well-b...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of happiness studies 2024-03, Vol.25 (3), p.28, Article 28 |
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Zusammenfassung: | How does being comparatively socio-economically disadvantaged within their neighbourhood affect the lived experiences of young teenagers? We explore this question on a sample of 13 to 15-year-old teenagers living in social housing in England. We explore three major domains of young teenagers’ well-being: (a) their sense of generally leading a bad life, (b) conflictual family interactions, and (c) unhappy social interactions with their peers. We find that living in a social housing estate within a less deprived neighbourhood does not negatively affect teenagers’ general sense of leading a bad life and does not increase conflictual family interactions. But it does make them
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likely to report unhappy social interactions with their peers, indicating a positive effect of social mixing at the neighbourhood level. |
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ISSN: | 1389-4978 1573-7780 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10902-024-00740-z |