Arizona State University.
University of Arizona.
Dev Psychopathol. 2018 Dec;30(5):1679-1698. doi: 10.1017/S0954579418001177. Epub 2018 Oct 5.
Ethnic-racial and socioeconomic residential segregation are endemic in the United States, representing societal-level sociocultural processes that likely shape development. Considered alongside communities' abilities to respond to external forces, like stratification, in ways that promote youth adaptive functioning and mitigate maladaptive functioning, it is likely that residence in segregated neighborhoods during adolescence has both costs and benefits. We examined the influences that early adolescents' neighborhood structural characteristics, including Latino concentration and concentrated poverty, had on a range of developmentally salient downstream outcomes (i.e., internalizing, externalizing, prosocial behaviors, and ethnic-racial identity resolution) via implications for intermediate aspects of adolescents' community participation and engagement (i.e., ethnic-racial identity exploration, ethnic-racial discrimination from peers, and school attachment). These mediational mechanisms were tested prospectively across three waves (Mage w1-w3 = 12.79, 15.83, 17.37 years, respectively) in a sample of 733 Mexican-origin adolescents (48.8% female). We found higher neighborhood Latino concentration during early adolescence predicted greater school attachment and ethnic-racial identity exploration and lower discrimination from peers in middle adolescence. These benefits, in turn, were associated with lower externalizing and internalizing and higher ethnic-racial identity resolution and prosocial behaviors in late adolescence. Findings are discussed relative to major guidelines for integrating culture into development and psychopathology.
美国存在着普遍的族裔-种族和社会经济居住隔离现象，这代表了一种社会层面的社会文化进程，可能会影响发展。考虑到社区应对外部力量的能力，例如分层，以促进青少年适应性功能和减轻适应不良功能，青少年在隔离社区居住可能既有成本也有收益。我们研究了早期青少年社区结构特征（包括拉丁裔聚居和贫困集中）对一系列发展相关下游结果（即内化、外化、亲社会行为和族裔-种族认同解决）的影响，这些特征通过对青少年社区参与和参与的中间方面（即族裔-种族认同探索、来自同龄人的族裔-种族歧视和学校依恋）产生影响。在一个由 733 名墨西哥裔青少年（48.8%为女性）组成的样本中，我们通过三个时间点（Mage w1-w3 = 12.79、15.83、17.37 岁）前瞻性地测试了这些中介机制。我们发现，青少年早期的社区拉丁裔聚居程度较高，预示着他们在中学时期会有更高的学校依恋和族裔-种族认同探索，以及更低的来自同龄人的歧视。反过来，这些好处又与青少年晚期较低的外化和内化以及较高的族裔-种族认同解决和亲社会行为有关。研究结果与将文化融入发展和精神病理学的主要准则进行了讨论。
