@article{ref1,
title="The relationship among school safety, school liking, and students' self-esteem: based on a multilevel mediation model",
journal="Journal of school health",
year="2016",
author="Zhang, Xinghui and Xuan, Xin and Chen, Fumei and Zhang, Cai and Luo, Yuhan and Wang, Yun",
volume="86",
number="3",
pages="164-172",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Perceptions of school safety have an important effect on students' development. Based on the model of &quot;context-process-outcomes,&quot; we examined school safety as a context variable to explore how school safety at the school level affected students' self-esteem. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>CONCLUSION: School safety should receive increasing attention from policymakers because of its impact on students' self-esteem.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4391",
doi="10.1111/josh.12364",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josh.12364"
}