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The Relationship Among School Safety, School Liking, and Students' Self‐Esteem: Based on a Multilevel Mediation Model
Author(s) -
Zhang Xinghui,
Xuan Xin,
Chen Fumei,
Zhang Cai,
Luo Yuhan,
Wang Yun
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/josh.12364
Subject(s) - mediation , self esteem , context (archaeology) , multilevel model , psychology , structural equation modeling , demographics , social psychology , developmental psychology , demography , mathematics , geography , statistics , archaeology , sociology , political science , law
BACKGROUND Perceptions of school safety have an important effect on students' development. Based on the model of “context‐process‐outcomes,” we examined school safety as a context variable to explore how school safety at the school level affected students' self‐esteem. METHODS We used hierarchical linear modeling to examine the link between school safety at the school level and students' self‐esteem, including school liking as a mediator. The data were from the National Children's Study of China ( NCSC ), in which 6618 fourth‐ to fifth‐grade students in 79 schools were recruited from 100 counties in 31 provinces in China. RESULTS Multilevel mediation analyses showed that the positive relationship between school safety at the school level and self‐esteem was partially mediated by school liking, controlling for demographics at both student and school levels. Furthermore, a sex difference existed in the multilevel mediation model. For boys, school liking fully mediated the relationship between school safety at the school level and self‐esteem. However, school liking partially mediated the relationship between school safety at the school level and self‐esteem among girls. CONCLUSION School safety should receive increasing attention from policymakers because of its impact on students' self‐esteem.