Housing, Home and Children’s Socio-Emotional Health: Conceptual Ideas and Empirical Evidence from a South African Pilot Study

Frances Gbadegesin; Lochner Marais; Jan Cloete; Kholisa Rani; Molefi Lenka; Motsaathabe Serekoane; Michael Boivin; Cilly Shohet; Deborah Givon; Carla Sharp

doi:10.1080/14036096.2022.2058602

Housing, Home and Children’s Socio-Emotional Health: Conceptual Ideas and Empirical Evidence from a South African Pilot Study

Frances Gbadegesin, Lochner Marais, Jan Cloete, Kholisa Rani, Molefi Lenka, Motsaathabe Serekoane, Michael Boivin, Cilly Shohet, Deborah Givon, Carla Sharp

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The literature linking home and housing with the socio-emotional health of children focuses primarily on the physical attributes of housing. We conducted a pilot study to measure physical and socio-emotional attributes of housing for a sample of 69 children from a low-resource setting in South Africa. We used the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We analysed the data using descriptive and inferential methods. Our preliminary evidence from the descriptive methods shows that the children’s socio-emotional health had a statistically significant correlation with six of the subscales in the HOME inventory but with only two of the physical attributes of their housing. We conclude that studies of the relationship between home and children’s socio-emotional health should pay more attention to the concept of home and how it has been operationalized through the HOME inventory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	555-572
Number of pages	18
Journal	Housing, Theory and Society
Volume	39
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2022.2058602
State	Published - 2022

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© 2022 IBF, The Institute for Housing and Urban Research.

Funding

National Institute of Child Health and Development (Grant number 1R01HD081985; PI: Sharp); MISC-CBO: A community-based intervention for HIV affected children. We wish to thank the community-based organisations, careworkers, and children who participated in the study.

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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	1R01HD081985

Keywords

Home Observation For Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory
Housing
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
children
home
socio-emotional health

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