3-174 - The Role of Neighborhood Context in Shaping Diverse Youth Development

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

There has been considerable interest in understanding how multiple contexts influence youth development. Neighborhoods are among the contexts that influence youth development (Leventhal, Dupéré, & Shuey, 2015). Importantly, promoting and inhibiting characteristics of neighborhoods exist within broader systems of stratification by socioeconomic status (SES), race, and ethnicity (Garica Coll et al., 1996). These forms of stratification result in individuals from low SES or ethnic-racial minoritized groups experiencing differential exposure to a range of promoting and inhibiting processes that occur in neighborhood environments. In this paper symposium, we explore how neighborhood environments shape diverse adolescents’ exposures to key promoting and inhibiting factors that influence a range of developmental competencies. Across the papers, researchers explore diverse mechanisms (e.g., concentration, heterogeneity), methods (e.g., objective versus subjective measures), and competencies (e.g., mental health, discrimination) to shed light in the nuanced ways in which neighborhood environments influence development. The first two papers take deep dives in how youths’ family environments are influenced by neighborhood factors. Paper 1 examines how African American and Latino parents’ ethnic-racial socialization messages are shaped by subjective and objective neighborhood factors. Paper 2 examines the intersection of paternal warmth and familism values in the Philippines. Paper 3 examines adolescents’ perception of ethnic-racial discrimination in neighborhood and school environments. Paper 4 is an examination of the psychological mechanisms via which neighborhood environments influence mental health, prosocial behaviors and identity development. Together these papers show that neighborhood environments can have important implications for family life and youth development in diverse groups.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Chair

• Michelle Christine Pasco, Arizona State University

Individual Presentations

• Neighborhood-Level Predictors of African American and Latino Parents’ Ethnic-Racial Socialization Messages - Presenting Author: Dawn Paula Witherspoon, The Pennsylvania State University; Non-Presenting Author: Ciara Smalls Glover, Georgia State University; Non-Presenting Author: Diane Hughes, New York University; Non-Presenting Author: Wei Wei, The Pennsylvania State University

• Filipino Fathers’ Familism and Parenting in the Context of Poor Living and Neighborhood Conditions - Presenting Author: Rosanne M Jocson, Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University; Non-Presenting Author: Paula Britta Apines, Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University; Non-Presenting Author: Jun Angelo Sunglao, Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University; Non-Presenting Author: Mara Patricia Yusingco, Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University

• Neighborhood collective efficacy as a moderator of the relationship between neighborhood and school racial/ethnic discrimination - Presenting Author: Feliz Quiñones, University of California, Los Angeles; Non-Presenting Author: Sandra Graham, University of California, Los Angeles

• Neighborhood Structural Characteristics and U.S. Mexican-origin Adolescents’ Adaptive and Maladaptive Functioning - Presenting Author: Rebecca M. B. White, Arizona State University; Non-Presenting Author: Katharine H. Zeiders, University of Arizona; Non-Presenting Author: M. Dalal Safa, Arizona State University