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Do Residential Conditions Explain the Relationship Between Living Arrangements and Adolescent Behavior?
Author(s) -
Crowder Kyle,
Teachman Jay
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00049.x
Subject(s) - panel study of income dynamics , context (archaeology) , socialization , psychology , disadvantage , developmental psychology , stepfamily , set (abstract data type) , opportunity structures , social psychology , demographic economics , economics , geography , political science , law , programming language , archaeology , computer science , politics
Persistent effects of childhood living arrangements and family change on adolescent outcomes have often been attributed to differences in socialization and intrafamily processes. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assess an alternative explanation: that neighborhood context and residential mobility represent a central set of mechanisms through which family structure affects adolescent risk behavior. Our results indicate that the effects of childhood living arrangements and family change on the risk of dropping out of school ( n = 8,267) and of experiencing a premarital teen pregnancy ( n = 6,063) are largely attenuated when differences in the level of neighborhood disadvantage and the number of residential moves experienced by adolescents is taken into account.