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Title: Neighborhood Perceptions and Well-being across the Early Life Course
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Tyndall, Benjamin D. |
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Neighborhood Perceptions and Well-being across the Early Life Course Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cohabitation; Depression (see also CESD); Discipline; Neighborhood Effects; Parent-Child Interaction; Pearlin Mastery Scale; Punishment, Corporal; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Disordered neighborhoods have been consistently linked with worse well-being for resident children compared to those who live in more advantaged neighborhoods. Though this finding is robust across studies, less is known about how neighborhood characteristics translate into poor psychosocial function in children and how these effects endure throughout childhood. In this paper, I examine one possible process linking disordered neighborhoods to child distress through neighborhood effects on maternal well-being and parent-child relationships. Using four waves of nationally representative parent and child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth – 1979 and Child samples, I estimate structural equation models that suggest disordered neighborhoods increase child distress in several ways. First, disordered neighborhoods are associated with increased maternal distress which in turn is associated with increased mother child arguments. I also find that mothers in disordered neighborhoods punish their children more frequently. Increased mother-child arguments and punishments are both associated with higher levels of child distress across multiple waves of data. These findings demonstrate how structural inequalities at the neighborhood-level and the negative consequences they have for interpersonal relationships can create deleterious effects throughout childhood |
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Tyndall, Benjamin D. Neighborhood Perceptions and Well-being across the Early Life Course. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, 2016. |