Psychosocial Health of Adolescent living in Urban Slum Nigeria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26710/reads.v1i1.111Keywords:
Urbanization Psychological wellbeing Urban slumsAbstract
The paper examines association of neighborhood characteristics with
psychosocial statues of adolescent living in urban slums. Data for the
study were obtained from a cross sectional survey among adolescent age
15-19, living in urban slums in Lagos State. Adopted a measuring scale
for adverse environment and psychosocial attributes, data were analyzed
using univariate and binary logistic regression analysis. Results revealed
that neighborhood characteristics were associated with low self-academic
performance rating. Both parental process and neighborhood factors such
social disorganization was able to predict psychosocial wellbeing such
subjective academic performance rating. The findings revealed among
others that adverse neighborhood characteristics in urban slum were
associated with unhealthy subjective wellbeing which reflects wide
personal and social contexts and have implications for public health and
social wellbeing. This paper calls for programmes that are tailor to
addressing rapidly developing slum settlements in low income area, to
secure the future generation.
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