Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2009 Dec;23(6):819-27. doi: 10.1037/a0016554.
The authors examined how neighborhood disorder modifies associations between family management practices and youth transitions to sex among low-income African American and Latino urban families. The sample included 846 young adolescents and their mothers who participated in Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study. Results from multilevel logistic regression models indicated no main effects of family management practices or neighborhood-level conditions on transitions to sex once accounting for demographics. However, higher levels of family routines and parental knowledge (i.e., awareness of youths' friends, whereabouts, and activities) were more strongly associated with a lower probability of youth sexual onset as neighborhood disorder increased. Results provide further evidence for the contextually specific nature of parenting impacts on adolescent adjustment.
作者研究了邻里混乱如何改变家庭管理实践与低收入非裔美国人和拉丁裔城市家庭青少年性过渡之间的关联。该样本包括 846 名青少年及其母亲，他们参加了《福利、儿童和家庭：三城市研究》。多水平逻辑回归模型的结果表明，一旦考虑到人口统计学因素，家庭管理实践或邻里水平条件对性过渡没有主要影响。然而，随着邻里混乱程度的增加，家庭日常生活和父母知识（即对青少年朋友、行踪和活动的了解）水平越高，与青少年性初潮的可能性越低之间的相关性越强。研究结果进一步证明了父母对青少年适应能力的影响具有特定情境的性质。
