Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Self-Rated Physical Health in an Urban Setting

Browning, Christopher R.; Cagney, Kathleen A.

doi:10.2307/3090233

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“…These studies have tended to adopt one of three theoretical explanatory models that correspond to each set of environmental characteristics: physical disorder theory (e.g., Bbroken windows^), 83,84 social disorganization theory, [85][86][87] and social norms theory. [55][56][57]88 Thus, within the urban environment, physical and social structural and cultural characteristics influence individuals via corresponding intervening mechanisms that operate via social networks or family system processes or via individual-level (e.g., internal cognitive or affective) processes.…”

Section: The Urban Environment and Sexual Behavior: Extant Explanatormentioning

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The Urban Environment and Sexual Risk Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men

Frye

Latka²,

Koblin³

et al. 2006

J Urban Health

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Increasingly, studies show that characteristics of the urban environment influence a wide variety of health behaviors and disease outcomes, yet few studies have focused on the sexual risk behaviors of men who have sex with men (MSM). This focus is important as many gay men reside in or move to urban areas, and sexual risk behaviors and associated outcomes have increased among some urban MSM in recent years. As interventions aimed at changing individual-level risk behaviors have shown mainly short-term effects, consideration of broader environmental influences is needed. Previous efforts to assess the influence of environmental characteristics on sexual behaviors and related health outcomes among the general population have generally applied three theories as explanatory models: physical disorder, social disorganization and social norms theories. In these models, the intervening mechanisms specified to link environmental characteristics to individual-level outcomes include stress, collective efficacy, and social influence processes, respectively. Whether these models can be empirically supported in generating inferences about the sexual behavior of urban MSM is underdeveloped. Conceptualizing sexual risk among MSM to include social and physical environmental characteristics provides a basis for generating novel and holistic disease prevention and health promotion interventions.

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Section: The Urban Environment and Sexual Behavior: Extant Explanatormentioning

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The Urban Environment and Sexual Risk Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men

Frye

Latka²,

Koblin³

et al. 2006

J Urban Health

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“…Informal social control, defined as the willingness of neighbors to intervene for common community goals, and social cohesion, which reflects high levels of trust and solidarity among neighbors that inhibit community violence, 21 were associated with higher levels of perceived health in Hispanic adolescents residing in Chicago and in an international sample. 22 Collective efficacy, often conceptualized as a combination of these two constructs, 21,23 was related to fewer symptom nights among children with respiratory problems including asthma 24 and was surmised to reduce asthma morbidity by limiting adverse health behaviors and environmental hazards that trigger exacerbations. 25 These findings demonstrate that the "social context matters" in asthma morbidity.…”

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The Influence of Community Violence and Protective Factors on Asthma Morbidity and Healthcare Utilization in High-Risk Children

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We examined the longitudinal effects of community risk and protective factors on asthma morbidity and healthcare utilization. Three hundred urban caregivers of children with poorly controlled asthma were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a behavioral/educational intervention and completed measures of exposure to community violence (ECV), social cohesion (SC), informal social control (ISC), child asthma control, child asthma symptom days/nights, and healthcare utilization. Latent growth curve modeling examined the direct and interaction effects of ECV, SC, and ISC on the asthma outcomes over 12 months. Caregivers were primarily the biological mother (92 %), single (70 %), and poor (50 % earned less than $10,000). Children were African American (96 %) and young (mean age=5.5 years, SD=2.2). ECV at baseline was high, with 24.7 % of caregivers reporting more than two exposures to violence in the previous 6 months (M=1.45, SD=1.61). Caregiver ECV-predicted asthma-related healthcare utilization at baseline (b=0.19, SE= 0.07, p=0.003) and 2 months (b=0.12, s.e.=0.05, p=0.04). ISC and SC moderated the effect of ECV on healthcare utilization. Our findings suggest that multifaceted interventions that include strategies to curb violence and foster feelings of cohesion among low-income urban residents may be needed to reduce asthma-related emergency services.

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“…The concept of collective efficacy, or social cohesion, has been widely used as a key component of contextual or neighborhood effect (Browning and Cagney 2002;Halbert et al 2014;Sampson et al 1997). KGSS contains two specific items to construct this variable.…”

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“Strength of Weak Ties,” Neighborhood Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Depressive Symptoms among Adults: A Multilevel Analysis of Korean General Social Survey (KGSS) 2012

Kim

2017

Social Sciences

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Abstract:A substantial body of research, based largely on North American and European contexts, demonstrates that social networks play a critical role in protecting and promoting mental, as well as physical, health. The purpose of this study is to examine how "weak" and "strong" network relations are differentially related to individual mental health (depressive symptoms) based on a nationally representative sample of South Korean adults. Using multilevel analysis, the current research also investigates the extent to which contextual or neighborhood-level factors moderate the associations between depression and social network. Findings show that regular interaction with weaker ties (acquaintances, neighbors, coworkers, etc.) are associated with better mental health. The number of strong ties (family members and friends), on the other hand, is not a significant predictor of psychological distress. In addition, a cross-level interaction term is observed: The negative relationship between weak ties and depressive symptoms is diminished in neighborhoods with more foreign-born residents or immigrants. General implications beyond the empirical case under investigation are discussed, as to why weak ties can be "strong" in relation to mental health and how this phenomenon can vary according to residential characteristics such as ethnic heterogeneity.

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Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage, Collective Efficacy, and Self-Rated Physical Health in an Urban Setting

Cited by 405 publications

References 30 publications

The Urban Environment and Sexual Risk Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men

The Urban Environment and Sexual Risk Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men

The Influence of Community Violence and Protective Factors on Asthma Morbidity and Healthcare Utilization in High-Risk Children

“Strength of Weak Ties,” Neighborhood Ethnic Heterogeneity, and Depressive Symptoms among Adults: A Multilevel Analysis of Korean General Social Survey (KGSS) 2012

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