Harding David J
University of Michigan.
Soc Forces. 2009 Dec;88(2):757-784. doi: 10.1353/sof.0.0281.
Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional association between neighborhood disadvantage and high school graduation among males and almost all of the association among females. Violence also accounts for about one fifth of the conditional association between disadvantage and teenage pregnancy among adolescents of both genders. Violence is a critical social characteristic of disadvantaged neighborhoods, one that explains a sizable portion of the effects of growing up in such neighborhoods.
本研究利用“青少年健康纵向研究”（Addhealth）的数据，调查邻里暴力在调节邻里劣势对高中毕业率和青少年怀孕影响方面所起的作用。结果表明，在控制了个人、家庭、社区和学校等因素后，邻里暴力是这两种结果的有力预测指标。邻里暴力几乎占男性邻里劣势与高中毕业率之间条件关联的一半，而在女性中几乎占了全部关联。暴力行为在两性青少年的劣势与青少年怀孕之间的条件关联中也占了约五分之一。暴力是弱势邻里的一个关键社会特征，它解释了在这类邻里中成长所产生的相当一部分影响。
