Does feeling safe in your neighborhood or school influence wellbeing?

As part of my initial survey, I asked participants to rate how safe they felt their schools and neighborhoods were for all students. 

I found that although students tended to rate their school higher on average than their neighborhood, there was a more significant correlation between a participant’s neighborhood rating and their wellbeing. There were positive links between participants’ feelings about both their schools and their neighborhoods and their reported wellbeing. However, there seemed to be a weaker correlation between the way they felt about their school (r(15) = 0.4108, p = 0.1014) than the way they felt about their neighborhood (r(15) = 0.464, p = 0.0606). 

One interesting aspect of these results is that my wellbeing results did not correlate with zipcode. Of my most represented zipcode (which happened to be the same one as my school), there were roughly equal responses across my total wellbeing range. This suggests that a person’s wellbeing is more closely linked to their perception of their environment than how it actually treats them, as there is still a correlation between how participants rated their neighborhood and their wellbeing score.