Neighborhood structural characteristics and Mexican-origin adolescents' development.
Dev Psychopathol
; 30(5): 1679-1698, 2018 12.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30289093
ABSTRACT
Ethnic-racial and socioeconomic residential segregation are endemic in the United States, representing societal-level sociocultural processes that likely shape development. Considered alongside communities' abilities to respond to external forces, like stratification, in ways that promote youth adaptive functioning and mitigate maladaptive functioning, it is likely that residence in segregated neighborhoods during adolescence has both costs and benefits. We examined the influences that early adolescents' neighborhood structural characteristics, including Latino concentration and concentrated poverty, had on a range of developmentally salient downstream outcomes (i.e., internalizing, externalizing, prosocial behaviors, and ethnic-racial identity resolution) via implications for intermediate aspects of adolescents' community participation and engagement (i.e., ethnic-racial identity exploration, ethnic-racial discrimination from peers, and school attachment). These mediational mechanisms were tested prospectively across three waves (Mage w1-w3 = 12.79, 15.83, 17.37 years, respectively) in a sample of 733 Mexican-origin adolescents (48.8% female). We found higher neighborhood Latino concentration during early adolescence predicted greater school attachment and ethnic-racial identity exploration and lower discrimination from peers in middle adolescence. These benefits, in turn, were associated with lower externalizing and internalizing and higher ethnic-racial identity resolution and prosocial behaviors in late adolescence. Findings are discussed relative to major guidelines for integrating culture into development and psychopathology.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Behavior
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Social Identification
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Residence Characteristics
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Mexican Americans
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Adolescent Development
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Mexico
Language:
En
Journal:
Dev Psychopathol
Journal subject:
PSICOLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Year:
2018
Document type:
Article
Publication country:
EEUU
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ESTADOS UNIDOS
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ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMERICA
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EUA
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UNITED STATES
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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US
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USA