Open AccessThe association of perceived neighbourhood factors and social class with depressive symptoms among Grade 6 elementary school children in Jamaica
Author(s) -
Rachel Chung,
Gillian A. Lowe,
Garth Lipps,
Roger C. Gibson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health psychology open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.691
H-Index - 15
ISSN - 2055-1029
DOI - 10.1177/2055102920904724
Subject(s) - neighbourhood (mathematics) , depressive symptoms , association (psychology) , perception , psychology , clinical psychology , social class , demography , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , anxiety , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , neuroscience , political science , law , psychotherapist
This project investigated the association between Jamaican school-age children’s perception of their communities and their levels of depressive symptoms. A cross-sectional survey of sixth-grade students from schools in Kingston, Jamaica was conducted. Results of correlational analyses indicated that there were significant associations between neighbourhood factors and depressive symptoms while multiple regression analyses suggested that neigbourhood factors and social class were predictive of children’s depressive symptoms. It appears that the perception of neighbourhood factors, particularly neighbourhood quality and network are associated with depressive symptom while neighbourhood factors may mediate the relationship between low social class and depressive symptoms.