Pathways of risk and resilience between neighborhood socioeconomic conditions and parenting

Elizabeth A. Shuey and Tama Leventhal

Children and Youth Services Review, 2017, vol. 72, issue C, 52-59

Abstract: This study examined pathways between neighborhood socioeconomic conditions (concentrated affluence and poverty), neighborhood resources and collective efficacy, and three parenting behaviors: warmth, harshness, and physical aggression. Data were drawn from the 3-year-old cohort of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a neighborhood-based study (N=999). Multilevel path models revealed that greater neighborhood affluence was indirectly associated with mothers' lower reports of physical aggression with their children via more neighborhood services for children, as reported by an independent sample of neighborhood residents. However, analyses using propensity score weights suggest the association between neighborhood affluence and parental aggression may be due to selection. Results are discussed with respect to implications for preventing child maltreatment.

Keywords: Parenting; Neighborhoods; Concentrated affluence; Concentrated poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.09.031

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