Désavantage socioéconomique du quartier et comportements antisociaux des adolescents: Quelle est l'échelle spatiale la plus probante? (original) (raw)

2011, Canadian Journal of …

Over the past two decades, a significant number of studies in the United States, Canada and Europe have attempted to identify links between neighbourhood characteristics and antisocial behaviour of children and adolescents. Despite the abundance of work, the question of the choice of spatial scale has received little attention. Indeed, few studies have used different scales simultaneously in order to identify the most relevant scale. The aim of our study is precisely to identify the spatial scale in the most convincing explanation of antisocial behaviour violent and nonviolent in mid-adolescence and to better understand whether these are the characteristics of the immediate social environment at home or those of a much larger space that best explain the frequency of these behaviours. Using data from the a Montreal longitudinal study (ELEM) for 1037 boys from neighborhood socioeconomically disadvantaged, we tested the influence of different spatial scales defined from buffer zones (5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes walk) from the residence of the child. The results show a significant relationship between low socioeconomic area and violent behaviour regardless of the spatial scale used. However, this relationship is significantly stronger for the smaller spatial units. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)