Abstract
Neighborhood conditions are related to children's externalizing behavior, although few processes that help explain this association have been identified. With data from 189 primarily low-income Anglo and Mexican American families, we tested a stress process model that included 3 potential mediators of this relationship. The results showed that child stressful life events, association with deviant peers, and parent-child conflict mediated the relationship between neighborhood context and child externalizing behavior when household income and maternal depression were controlled. The model explained more than 25% of the variance in externalizing behavior. Furthermore, differences in results for families with a U.S.-born versus Mexico-born mother showed that neighborhood influences on families and children may be quite complex.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 515-529 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Marriage and Family |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2005 |
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Keywords
- Externalizing behavior
- Mexican American families
- Neighborhood
- Parent-child conflict
- Peer relations
- Stress
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
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Family and child characteristics linking neighborhood context and child externalizing behavior. / Roosa, Mark W.; Deng, Shiying; Ryu, Ehri; Lockhart Burrell, Ginger; Tein, Jenn-Yun; Jones, Sarah; Lopez, Vera; Crowder, Sakina.
In: Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 67, No. 2, 05.2005, p. 515-529.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Crowder, Sakina
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