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Title: Staying Out of Trouble: Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori |
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Staying Out of Trouble: Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Behavior, Violent; Bias Decomposition; Census of Population; Deviance; Family Environment; Family Income; Family Resources; Neighborhood Effects; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parental Influences; Residence; Risk-Taking; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); School Characteristics/Rating/Safety Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This research considers how objective and perceived neighborhood quality affects adolescent problem behavior by estimating a series of multivariate models using zip code level data from the 1990 Census and data from the 1994 National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) Merged Mother-Child sample. This sample includes 854 adolescents aged 14 to 18 (Child inputs from 1992, YA outputs from 1994). The results indicate that residential stability has a strong protective effect on adolescent deviant behavior and this effect persists even when family level stressors and maternal resources are considered. Living in communities with higher levels of collective affluence also negatively influences adolescent deviant behavior. Perceived characteristics also matter. Attending schools staffed by caring and skilled teachers who maintain an environment of discipline and safety has detectable effects on the student's propensity for aggressive behavior. However, the significant effects of perceived neighborhood problems on deviant adolescent behavior seem to be counteracted by positive family and especially maternal resources. |
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Bibliography Citation
Kowaleski-Jones, Lori. "Staying Out of Trouble: Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Problem Behavior." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996. |