Humphrey Jamie L
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, United States; Institute of Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1440 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302, United States.
Health Place. 2016 Jul;40:178-84. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.06.003. Epub 2016 Jun 23.
This study examined direct area-level effects of 4 common child well-being outcomes across multiple scales of residential and school neighborhoods to identify relevant contexts for measuring neighborhood effects on elementary school children. Results from growth curve models indicate that neighborhoods operationalized as residential and school census tracts exerted similar effect sizes while neighborhoods operationalized as school attendance zones showed attenuated effects. These results suggest that it may be reasonable to interchange residential and school census tracts when examining contextual effects on child well-being. In addition, results suggest that school attendance zones represent conservative, theoretically sound neighborhoods for elementary school children.
本研究在多个居住和学校社区尺度上考察了4种常见儿童福祉结果的直接区域层面影响，以确定衡量社区对小学生影响的相关背景。增长曲线模型的结果表明，作为居住和学校普查区进行操作化的社区产生了相似的效应量，而作为学校出勤区进行操作化的社区效应则有所减弱。这些结果表明，在研究社区对儿童福祉的背景影响时，互换居住和学校普查区可能是合理的。此外，结果表明，学校出勤区对于小学生来说是保守的、理论上合理的社区。
