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Title: Neighborhood Impacts on Child Anxiety and Depression: The Mediating Influences of Maternal Well-Being and Parent-Child Relationships
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Tyndall, Benjamin D. |
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Neighborhood Impacts on Child Anxiety and Depression: The Mediating Influences of Maternal Well-Being and Parent-Child Relationships Presented: Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Anxiety; Child Health; Depression (see also CESD); Modeling, Structural Equation; Mothers, Health; Neighborhood Effects; Parent-Child Relationship/Closeness; Parenting Skills/Styles 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. 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 anxiety and depression 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 anxiety and depression in several ways. First, disordered neighborhoods are associated with increased maternal depressive symptoms which in turn are associated with increased parent-child arguments which are then associated with higher levels of child anxiety and depression. I also find that parents in disordered neighborhoods punish their children more frequently which in turn has negative effects on child well-being. Despite these mediating pathways, strong direct influences of neighborhoods on child well-being remain. 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 Impacts on Child Anxiety and Depression: The Mediating Influences of Maternal Well-Being and Parent-Child Relationships." Presented: Seattle WA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016. |