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Housing Tenure and Youth Trajectories of Mental Health in Canada

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
2 November 2020

Abstract

We take a novel approach to estimating the association between housing tenure and youth mental health by considering stability and change in exposure. We categorize youth from age 10–15 into mutually exclusive groups: always rent or own—stable patterns; intermittently rent, or own—changing patterns. We use growth modeling to compare trajectories of aggression and emotional problems among children in families who always or intermittently rent to their counterparts who always own. We observe initial disparities in problems with aggression at age 10–11 between youth who have always lived in rented vs. owned housing that persist over time, resulting in comparable disparities at age 14–15.

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Nous adoptons une approche inédite pour mettre en corrélation le mode d’occupation du logement et la santé mentale des jeunes, sous le regard de la stabilité et de la variabilité quant à l’exposition. Nous avons classé les jeunes de 10 à 15 ans dans des groupes mutuellement exclusifs : ceux issus de familles locataires ou propriétaires en permanence—modèles stables; ceux issus de familles locataires ou propriétaires par intermittence—modèles variables. Nous avons recours à la modélisation de la croissance pour comparer les trajectoires propres aux problèmes d’agressivité et aux troubles émotionnels que présentent les enfants issus de familles locataires, en permanence ou par intermittence, par rapport aux enfants provenant de

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 39Number 2July 2020
Pages: 41 - 57

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Version of record online: 2 November 2020

Key Words

  1. housing tenure
  2. housing policy
  3. youth mental health
  4. latent growth models

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  1. mode d’occupation
  2. politique en matière de logement
  3. santé mentale des jeunes
  4. modèles de croissance latente

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Comeau Jinette [email protected]
King’s University College at Western University
Duncan Laura
Georgiades Katholiki
Wang Li
Boyle Michael H.

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