Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Department of Psychology.
J Fam Psychol. 2019 Mar;33(2):253-258. doi: 10.1037/fam0000500. Epub 2019 Feb 4.
Extensive research has linked neighborhood stress with poorer adolescent physical health, but there are individual differences in this association. There is robust evidence that qualities of family relationships, and particularly interparental conflict, can buffer or exacerbate the effects of neighborhood characteristics on development. The goal of this study was to examine interactions between perceived neighborhood stress and marital conflict in relation to reported adolescent health. Participants were 153 adolescents (48% male; 10-17 years of age) and their parents. Although there were no main effects of marital conflict on adolescent health, there was a significant (and negative) main effect of neighborhood stress as well as a significant interaction between neighborhood stress and marital conflict in relation to health. There was a significant and negative association between neighborhood stress and physical health for adolescents with parents who reported lower levels of marital conflict. Thus, the best self-reported health may be evident in children who benefit from living in a lower stress neighborhood and having low-conflict parents. In contrast, there was a nonsignificant association between neighborhood stress and physical health for adolescents from homes characterized by high marital conflict, suggesting that those from high-conflict homes may be less sensitive to the more distal influences of the neighborhood environment on health, as the more proximal influence of marital conflict may take precedence in increasing allostatic load and thus influencing health outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
大量研究将邻里压力与青少年身体健康状况较差联系起来，但这种关联存在个体差异。有强有力的证据表明，家庭关系的质量，特别是父母之间的冲突，可以缓冲或加剧邻里特征对发展的影响。本研究的目的是检验感知邻里压力与婚姻冲突之间的相互作用与青少年健康报告之间的关系。参与者是 153 名青少年（48%为男性；年龄在 10-17 岁）及其父母。尽管婚姻冲突对青少年健康没有主要影响，但邻里压力具有显著（负向）的主要影响，以及邻里压力和婚姻冲突之间的显著交互作用与健康有关。对于报告婚姻冲突水平较低的青少年，邻里压力与身体健康之间存在显著的负相关关系。因此，在受益于生活在压力较小的邻里环境和低冲突父母的孩子中，自我报告的最佳健康状况可能更为明显。相比之下，对于来自婚姻冲突较高家庭的青少年，邻里压力与身体健康之间没有显著关联，这表明那些来自高冲突家庭的青少年对邻里环境对健康的更遥远影响可能不太敏感，因为婚姻冲突的更直接影响可能会优先增加适应负荷，从而影响健康结果。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
