A tale of two cities: Residential context and risky behavior among adolescents in Los Angeles and Chicago

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• 作者：Reanne Frank^a ; ^{frank.219@osu.edu} ; Eileen Bjornstrom^b ; ¹ ; ^{bjornstrome@missouri.edu}
• 关键词：Latinos ; Adolescents ; Risky behavior ; Residential context ; Los Angeles ; Chicago
• 刊名：Health and Place
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：January 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 页码：67-77
• 全文大小：604 K

文摘

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.