Tarantino Nicholas, Goodrum Nada M, Salama Christina, LeCroix Rebecca H, Gaska Karie, Cook Sarah L, Skinner Donald, Armistead Lisa P
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
J Early Adolesc. 2018 Oct;38(8):1142-1169. doi: 10.1177/0272431617725196. Epub 2017 Aug 11.
This study examined South African early adolescent youth (aged 10 to 14) and their female caregivers ( = 99 dyads) participating in an HIV prevention intervention over a period of eight months. We examined youth perceptions of neighborhood cohesion, safety, and collective monitoring as they related to concurrent and longitudinal associations with youth (externalizing behavior and hope about the future) and family (parent-youth relationship quality, parental involvement, and parental responsiveness to sex communication) functioning while controlling for baseline characteristics. Neighborhood perceptions were significantly associated ( < .05) with short- and longer-term outcomes. Gender differences suggested a greater protective association of perceived neighborhood conditions with changes in functioning for boys versus girls. Unexpected associations were also observed, including short-term associations suggesting a link between better neighborhood quality and poorer family functioning. We account for the culture of this South African community when contextualizing our findings and conclude with recommendations for interventions targeting neighborhood contexts.
本研究调查了参与一项为期八个月的艾滋病毒预防干预措施的南非青少年（10至14岁）及其女性照料者（共99对）。我们研究了青少年对邻里凝聚力、安全性和集体监督的看法，这些看法与青少年（外化行为和对未来的希望）和家庭（亲子关系质量、父母参与度以及父母对性交流的反应）功能的同时期和纵向关联相关，同时控制了基线特征。邻里认知与短期和长期结果显著相关（p<0.05）。性别差异表明，与女孩相比，感知到的邻里条件对男孩功能变化的保护作用更大。还观察到了意外的关联，包括短期关联表明更好的邻里质量与更差的家庭功能之间存在联系。我们在对研究结果进行背景分析时考虑了这个南非社区的文化，并最后针对邻里环境提出了干预建议。
