Objective and subjective features of children's neighborhoods: relations to parental regulatory strategies and children's social competence

O'Neil, Robin; Parke, Ross D.; McDowell, David J.

doi:10.1016/s0193-3973(01)00073-9

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“…A key component of those processes is family management, which includes parental monitoring of the child's behavior, the establishment of rules, and parentchild bonding. Positive family management practices are likely to be protective factors in youth's social and academic development (Griffin et al 1999;O'Neil, Parke, and McDowell 2001). Whether parents monitor the behavior of their child is one of the most influential predictors of youth behaviors (e.g., sexual risk taking; Huebner and Howell 2003).…”

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“…In addition, challenges emerge in precisely identifying the ways that families mediate the relationship between neighborhood factors and youth behaviors (Burton and Jarrett 2000). To begin with, only a few existing studies (e.g., Klebanov, Brooks-Gunn, and Duncan 1994;Brody et al 2001;O'Neil et al 2001) explicitly examine how neighborhoods affect parenting behaviors. Findings are also not conclusive about the specific associations between family variables and neighborhood variables (Burton and Jarrett 2000).…”

Section: A Network Of Neighborhood Risk and Family Protectionmentioning

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“…Little research investigates such complex interrelationships as whether the interplay among several risk and protective factors predicts youth behaviors differently across racial and ethnic groups. Studies on neighborhood, in particular, tend to focus on inner-city samples that contain rather homogenous populations (O'Neil et al 2001) or have subgroups with sample sizes that are too small for meaningful examination of group differences.The family factors may be particularly strong mediators for ethnic minority youth. The parental roles of protector and gatekeeper are critical for minority children, especially because these children are likely to face structural and social adversities outside the family (Spencer, Swanson, and Cunningham 1991).…”

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Neighborhoods, Family, and Substance Use: Comparisons of the Relations across Racial and Ethnic Groups

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Harachi

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2006

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This study examines how substance use among adolescents is related to several risk and protective factors derived from two ecological contexts: the neighborhood and the family. It explicitly investigates how the relationships between substance use and the factors vary across different racial and ethnic groups. Findings suggest many common correlates and processes of substance use for adolescents, regardless of race or ethnicity, including that neighborhood safety is associated with substance use. There are also some racial and ethnic group differences in relationships, including that low attachment to and lack of social opportunities in neighborhoods more strongly predict substance use among whites than among other racial and ethnic groups and that family management decreases the relationship between neighborhood safety and substance use among African Americans. A better understanding of the associations among factors that influence substance use across racial and ethnic subgroups can help effectively target preventive interventions for different groups.Over the past 2 decades, numerous etiological studies have investigated the origins of and pathways to problem behaviors for youth. Such behaviors include substance use, aggressive and nonaggressive delinquent offenses, negative school behaviors, and risky sexual behaviors (e.g., Hawkins, Catalano, and Miller 1992; Hawkins et al. 2000). The studies identify several individual characteristics that predict problem behaviors. These studies also suggest that the developmental context of youth is a source of both risk and protection for such behaviors. Contexts typically include family, peers, school, and neighborhoods (Bogenschneider 1996). For example, neighborhood poverty, lack of neighborhood safety, and lack of social cohesion among neighbors are found to predict problems among youth (Brooks-Gunn et al. 1993;Sampson 1997;Hill and Herman-Stahl 2002). Factors related to the family context, including parenting strategies and youth's affective relationships with parents, also emerge as strong determinants of youth problems (Steinberg, Brown, and Dornbusch 1996;Huebner and Howell 2003). This article, while also considering other factors, focuses on how two of these contexts, neighborhood and family, predict substance use among youth.Individual, neighborhood, and family factors are known to predict problem behaviors, but it is not clear how these factors operate together to influence the development of problem and positive behaviors among youth (Furstenberg et al. 1998;Griffin et al. 1999;Duncan and Raudenbush 2001;Hill and Herman-Stahl 2002). Moreover, it is not clear how interrelationships among individual, family, and neighborhood factors vary across racial and NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript ethnic groups in predicting youth problem behaviors (McLoyd et al. 2000). The current study seeks to improve understanding of these issues. Neighborhood Risk FactorsNumerous studies find that neighborhood fact...

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Section: A Network Of Neighborhood Risk and Family Protectionmentioning

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Section: Racial and Ethnic Differencesmentioning

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“…Importantly, such subjective assessments of the social environment might be just as or even more important than objective assessments in shaping parenting. 35 Thus, while objective, community-level measures of the social environment have been linked with harsh or abusive parenting (e.g., neighborhood poverty, 36 concentrated disadvantage, and murder rate statistics), 37 subjective measures of related social contexts, such as parents' perceptions of neighborhood danger, lack of adequate public services, 36 or their normative environment regarding CP, might also be important in shaping parenting attitudes and choices. The latter will be the focus of the present study.…”

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Perceived Social Norms, Expectations, and Attitudes toward Corporal Punishment among an Urban Community Sample of Parents

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Despite the fact that corporal punishment (CP) is a significant risk factor for increased aggression in children, child physical abuse victimization, and other poor outcomes, approval of CP remains high in the United States. Having a positive attitude toward CP use is a strong and malleable predictor of CP use and, therefore, is an important potential target for reducing use of CP. The Theory of Planned Behavior suggests that parents' perceived injunctive and descriptive social norms and expectations regarding CP use might be linked with CP attitudes and behavior. A randomdigit-dial telephone survey of parents from an urban community sample (n=500) was conducted. Perceived social norms were the strongest predictors of having positive attitudes toward CP, as follows: (1) perceived approval of CP by professionals (β=0.30), (2) perceived descriptive norms of CP use (β=0.22), and (3) perceived approval of CP by family and friends (β=0.19); also, both positive (β=0.13) and negative (β=−0.13) expected outcomes for CP use were strong predictors of these attitudes. Targeted efforts are needed to both assess and shift the attitudes and practices of professionals who influence parents regarding CP use; universal efforts, such as public education campaigns, are needed to educate parents and the general public about the high risk/ benefit ratio for using CP and the effectiveness of non-physical forms of child discipline.

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Neighborhood Safety and Overweight Status in Children

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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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Objective and subjective features of children's neighborhoods: relations to parental regulatory strategies and children's social competence

Cited by 93 publications

References 22 publications

Neighborhoods, Family, and Substance Use: Comparisons of the Relations across Racial and Ethnic Groups

Neighborhoods, Family, and Substance Use: Comparisons of the Relations across Racial and Ethnic Groups

Perceived Social Norms, Expectations, and Attitudes toward Corporal Punishment among an Urban Community Sample of Parents

Neighborhood Safety and Overweight Status in Children

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