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Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality
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Existing research examining the academic performance of youth in residential care has often overlooked the
contextual factors contributing to youth achievements. Guided by an ecological perspective, this study aimed to
investigate the associations between various dimensions of residential care settings’ (RCS) organizational social
context (i.e., organizational climate, structure, and work attitudes) and youth’s academic achievement,
considering the mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality in those associations. The study was based
on a sample of 699 young people aged 12–25 (M = 16.18; SD = 2.07), and their respective main residential
caregivers (N = 242) and case managers (N = 168), from 55 RCS in Portugal. Given the hierarchical structure of
the data, analyses were performed using multilevel modelling. Results showed that the association between
caregivers’ reports of the residential care setting organizational social context, specifically regarding caregiver
engagement and centralization (i.e., authority hierarchy), and youth’s academic achievement (i.e., higher scores
in Math and Portuguese language) was mediated by lower levels of negative interactions with caregivers, reported by the youth. The findings demonstrate the need for an ecological, multilevel perspective, in addressing
youth’s academic achievement in residential care. Awareness and appropriate resources should be directed at
improving child-caregiver relationship quality and social climate of RCS, among other efforts, to improve poor
academic performance of youth in residential care.
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Residential care Youth Academic achievement Social context Youth-caregiver relationship
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Citação
Silva, C. S., Carvalho, H., Magalhães, E., Attar-Schwartz, S., Ornelas, S., & Calheiros, M. M. (2022). Organizational social context and academic achievement of youth in residential care: The mediating role of youth-caregiver relationship quality. Children and Youth Services Review, 137, 106449. htts://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106449
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Elsevier