Neighborhood Conditions, Parenting, & Adolescent Functioning.

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  • Julianne H. J. Law
    Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. USA.
  • Brian K Barber
    Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. USA.
This study examined youth self-reported data from a 4-year longitudinal study of 5th and 8th grade youth and their parents. Relationships between neighborhood conditions, parenting, and youth antisocial behavior were tested using structural equation modeling. The findings of this study appear to suggest there are two social forces that affect youth antisocial behavior: parenting and neighborhood conditions. Higher levels of parental acceptance and monitoring are directly and significantly associated with lower levels of youth antisocial behavior, as are higher levels of community social integration and lower levels of youth loneliness. Overall, it was found that some measures of neighborhood conditions and some measures of parenting were relatively equally predictive of youth antisocial behavior. Other measures of neighborhood conditions were predictive of parenting, but not strongly enough to also impact adolescent functioning.

Keywords

  • Neighborhood, Adolescent, Socialization, Parenting, Social Disorganization, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)91-118
Number of pages27
JournalJournal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Volume14
Issue number4
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Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
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