Department of Sociology, 238 Townshend Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Health Place. 2011 Jan;17(1):67-77. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.08.017. Epub 2010 Aug 25.
This article evaluates whether the at-risk behavior of adolescents is differentially influenced by community context across two metropolitan areas. Our focus is on Latino youth in particular. The data come from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN). Multi-level models are employed to estimate the effects of community-level influences on adolescent risky behavior in Los Angeles and Chicago. Neighborhood-level influences on the at-risk behavior of youth are found to operate similarly across the two cities, such that native-born children of Latino immigrants are at greatest risk of problem behavior in co-ethnic highly segregated neighborhoods in both Los Angeles and Chicago. Similar patterns are observed for African-Americans, particularly in Chicago and Non-Latino Whites in both cities. We argue that the findings are best interpreted through a segregation framework. Members of each racial/ethnic group appear to exhibit negative health risk behaviors when they reside in areas that are disproportionately populated with their co-ethnic peers.
本文评估了青少年的危险行为是否会因两个大都市地区的社区环境而有所不同。我们特别关注拉丁裔青年。数据来自洛杉矶家庭和邻里调查（L.A.FANS）和芝加哥社区人类发展项目（PHDCN）。采用多层次模型来估计社区层面的影响对洛杉矶和芝加哥青少年危险行为的影响。研究发现，邻里层面的影响对两个城市青年的危险行为具有相似的作用，以至于拉丁裔移民的土生土长子女在洛杉矶和芝加哥的高度种族隔离的同族人社区中面临最大的行为问题风险。非裔美国人也观察到类似的模式，尤其是在芝加哥，而两个城市的非拉丁裔白人也是如此。我们认为，通过隔离框架可以最好地解释这些发现。当每个种族/族裔群体的成员居住在其同族人比例过高的地区时，他们似乎表现出不良的健康风险行为。
