Neighborhoods, Social Support, and African American Adolescents' Mental Health Outcomes: A Multilevel Path Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Hurd, Noelle M.; Stoddard, Sarah A.; Zimmerman, Marc A.
Titel	Neighborhoods, Social Support, and African American Adolescents' Mental Health Outcomes: A Multilevel Path Analysis
Quelle	In: Child Development, 84 (2013) 3, S.858-874 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12018
Schlagwörter	Path Analysis; Adolescent Development; Mental Health; African American Students; Social Support Groups; Neighborhoods; Disadvantaged Environment; Environmental Influences; Anxiety; Depression (Psychology); Community Characteristics; Predictor Variables; Individual Characteristics; Correlation; Urban Areas; At Risk Persons; Socioeconomic Status; Poverty; Gender Differences; Unemployment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pfadanalyse; Psychohygiene; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Angst; Prädiktor; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Korrelation; Urban area; Stadtregion; Risikogruppe; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Armut; Geschlechterkonflikt; Arbeitslosigkeit
Abstract	This study explored how neighborhood characteristics may relate to African American adolescents' internalizing symptoms via adolescents' social support and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion. Participants included 571 urban, African American adolescents (52% female; "M" age = 17.8). A multilevel path analysis testing both direct and indirect effects of neighborhood characteristics on adolescents' mental health outcomes was conducted. Higher neighborhood poverty and unemployment rates predicted greater internalizing symptoms via lower cumulative social support and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion. In contrast, higher concentrations of African American and residentially stable residents in one's neighborhood related to fewer internalizing symptoms among adolescent residents via greater cumulative social support and perceptions of neighborhood cohesion. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10